Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

Homer

told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered

Jane Austen

you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own

Kerry E. Wagner

I don't just try to be funny.

Bil Keane

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot

Mark Twain

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

Timbaland

This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Ronald Reagan

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

Henry David Thoreau

It was very still. The tree was tall and straggling. It had thrown its briers over a hawthorn-bush, and its long streamers trailed thick, right down to the grass, splashing the darkness everywhere with great spilt stars, pure white. In bosses of ivory and in large splashed stars the roses gleamed on the darkness of foliage and stems and grass. Paul and Miriam stood close together, silent, and watched. Point after point the steady roses shone out to them, seeming to kindle something in their souls. The dusk came like smoke around, and still did not put out the roses.

D.H. Lawrence

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Raymond Chandler