It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

Dorothy Parker

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

Paul De Man

I pray for no more youthTo perish before its prime;That Revenge and iron-heated WarMay fade with all that has gone beforeInto the night of time.

Aeschylus

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

Georg Baselitz

Life is lived on the edge.

Will Smith

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

John Jay Chapman

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Publilius Syrus

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Ambrose Bierce

Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.

Joshua Foer

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Orison Swett Marden

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.

Hassan Nasrallah