Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

What you need is an idea.

William P. Lear

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Lewis Mumford

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

Ricky Williams

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Remy de Gourmont

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

Wayne White

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander the Great

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Jean Cocteau

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

James Thurber

We are like angels with just one wing. We can only fly by embracing each other.

Anon.

The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed insteadone of the driven cattle of the political arena.

Theodore Roosevelt

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

Jeffery Deaver

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell