The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

George Washington

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Johnny Carson

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

Bijou Phillips

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

Robin Wright Penn

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Francis Bacon

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.

Helen Hunt

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

Herbert Croly

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Vaclav Havel

Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.

Jane Siberry