It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.

Donald Knuth

By guts I mean, grace under pressure

Ernest Hemingway

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Aldous Huxley

The trouble with fiction... is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Aldous Huxley

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Hannah Arendt

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

Harold Nicolson

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Voltaire

Mum and dad thought I was going to say I was pregnant. I said oh no, no, I've just been nominated for a Golden Globe. They were like, oh that's lovely, love.

Melissa George

Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.

Alexander Pope

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost -- the most legitimate -- passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Marquis de Sade

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Vincent Van Gogh