Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal...The business of art is to appeal to the soul.

Florence Earle Coates

Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lostmemories? Then are we not each dreamers of tomorrow and yesterday, since dreamsplay when time is askew? Are we not all adrift in the constant sea of trial and when all is done, do we not all yearn for ships to carry us home?

Nathan Reese Maher

Grace is available for each of us every day -- our spiritual daily bread -- but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

Martin Van Buren

What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.

Joseph Conrad

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

John Dryden

It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

Harold Hamm

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

Jason Reitman

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

Alan Coren

The money men make lives after them.

Samuel Butler

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

Nancy Pelosi

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

Lord Chesterfield