Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

Love is waiting for you, but you might need to wait until tomorrow.

Marlene Thornton

I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.

Jane Austen

It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

W. H. Auden

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age -- which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

Noel Coward

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

Lucretia Mott

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

Jodi Picoult

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him, a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

Pearl Buck

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

Curtis W. Fentress

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

Kin Hubbard

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

George Eliot