The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Arnold H. Glasow

Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error insinuates itself under the guise of truth, through the same inlets by which truth is admitted, it is ever diffident of its att

Mary Worley Montagu

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Kim Basinger

A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Oscar Wilde

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

John Hersey

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

Antonia S. Byatt

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Sir Walter Scott

It's surreal to know my dreams are coming true.

Mario Vazquez

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

James Montgomery

If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person.

Shinichi Suzuki