Gradually the mist had lifted, and the sun burst forth, a ball of fire radiating the sky with unnaturally incandescent hues. Coral was reminded of the strident brushwork and wild colours of the Fauvist paintings that filled her mother's gallery, which Coral had always loved. The scene was now set for the show to begin: the drama in which the broad, breath-taking landscapes of Africa were the stage and the animals the actors.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Walter Wriston

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

Morgan Freeman

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Manly Hall

To a poet nothing can be useless

Samuel Johnson

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

Kenneth L. Pike

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.

Steve Jobs

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance

Samuel Johnson

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

Eleanor Roosevelt

How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?

Orson Scott Card

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Joan Miro

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Saul Bellow

The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.

Oscar Wilde