As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

David Seabury

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Yann Martel

I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Gerald R. Ford

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Francis Schaeffer

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

Michael N. Castle

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

Delmore Schwartz

Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music

Tom Sims

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

Josh Lucas

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Calvin Coolidge

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

Keith Richards

What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator.

Anon.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Johann von Goethe