It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

William Shakespeare

It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about.

Stephen Richards

I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character.

Jerry Hall

If you were not born with Wings...do nothing to impede their Growth...

Coco Chanel

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - Speech is silver, Silence is golden; or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity

Thomas Carlyle

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Mal Pancoast

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

Simone Elkeles

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Harold S. Geneen

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Kong Fu Zi

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

Jonathan Raban

I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

John Green