The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

Wallace Stevens, Adagia

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

James Dyson

You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'

Karl Rove

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

Cyril Connolly

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

Karl Lagerfeld

We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Kurt Vonnegut

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

James Baldwin

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Josh Billings

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

George Bernard Shaw

A light here required a shadow there.

Virginia Woolf

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Roy Croft