I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.

For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?

Ayn Rand

We fear the thing we want the most.

Robert Anthony

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Woody Allen

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Saint Augustine

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck

Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification.

Omar Sharif

Why do we want to test people for drugs and alcohol? Why don't we test them from stupidity, illiteracy and avarice? The place would be better.

Source Unknown

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Victor Hugo

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present -- which seldom happens to us.

Jean de la Bruyere

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Sir Thomas Browne

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?

Orson Scott Card