Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

Lionel Blue

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

William Shakespeare

The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Alan Perlis

All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.

Carrie Underwood

Practice only makes for improvement.

Les Brown

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.

Jerry Saltz

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

G. W. F. Hegel

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.

Joan Welsh

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

Brandon Routh

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Black Elk

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Walter Bagehot