I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

Let us look beyond the ears of our own horses so that we may see the good in one another's.

Anon., Old equine expression

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure.

Wallace Stevens

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

Edward George BulwerLytton

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...

E.A. Bucchianeri

I appreciate and enjoy my age.

Nikki Giovanni

I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

Steven Wright

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.

Alexander McCall Smith

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Philip Larkin

I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.

Jules Haigler

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights. Now it looks like I'm the only one moving.

Steven Wright

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

Ruth St. Denis