It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

Miguel de Cervantes, Preface to

Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.

Brendan Francis

Cheese runners shouted at it, tried to grab it, and flailed at it with sticks, but the piratical cheese scythed onward, reaching the bottom just ahead of the terrible carnage of men and cheeses as they piled up. Then it rolled back to the top and sat there demurely while still gently vibrating.At the bottom of the slope, fights were breaking out among the cheese jockeys who were still capable of punching somebody, and since everybody was watching that, Tiffany took the opportunity to snatch up Horace and shove him in her bag. After all, he was hers. Well, that was to say she had made him, although something odd must have gone into the mix since Horace was the only cheese that would eat mice and, if you didn't nail him down, other cheeses as well.

Terry Pratchett

Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Yiddish Proverb

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Ben Affleck

Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Roger Tory Peterson

I prayed for all his dreams to come true. I prayed that I would always be able to connect with him--even if I was no longer on earth.

Alexandra Adornetto

I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.

Mike Piazza

The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

Jennifer Connelly

I never mind about the little things when I am focused on the better things

Julie Hardesty

You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Robert Louis Stevenson