Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.

Glenn Dickey

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

David Hume

He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.

John Moore

Does not the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

Joan D. Vinge

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Lord Chesterfield

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Oscar Wilde

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Glenda Jackson

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

Mark Spitz

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Ambrose Bierce