God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

Graeme Le Saux

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

Taylor Swift

There is no such thing as a lover's oath.

Plato

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

Estelle Morris

During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

Anita Hill

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

Geraldine Ferraro

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

P. L. Debevoise

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

Kitty Kelley

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

Albert Einstein

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Albert Schweitzer

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Phillip H. Haberman Jr.