Fortune and humor govern the world.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Desmond Tutu

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Benjamin Franklin

Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows; Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower. Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn, She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

Robert Greene

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

Raymond Carver

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Frank Zappa

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

Emma Watson

I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff.

Catherine Bell

how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was anotherappleto slice into pieces.Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it's noon,that meanswe're inconsolable.Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.These our bodies, possessed by light.Tell me we'll never get used to it.

Richard Siken

I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

Krista Allen

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

Philip Levine

You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Les Brown