No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Karl Kraus

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

John Hughes

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Stephen King

Las cosas claras y el chocolate espeso.(Ideas should be clear and chocolate thick)

Proverb

Style is the image of character.

Edward Gibbon

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.

Ernest Thompson Seton

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

Boris Trajkovski

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

Bernard Malamud

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness.

Ossie Davis

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Voltaire

Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale? someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country.

Edward Everett Hale