I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and that the answers are on a certain page.

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

Albert Camus

Highly important in poetry is Rhythm, but the word means merely 'flow,' so that rhythm belongs to prose as well as to poetry. Good rhythm is merely a pleasing succession of sounds. Meter, the distinguishing formal mark of poetry and all verse, is merely rhythm which is regular in certainfundamental respects, roughly speaking is rhythm in which the recurrence of stressed syllables or of feet with definite time-values is regular. There is no proper connection either in spelling or in meaning between rhythm and rime (which is generally misspelled 'rhyme'). The adjective derived from'rhythm' is 'rhythmical'; there is no adjective from 'rime' except 'rimed.' The word 'verse' in its general sense includes all writing in meter. Poetry is that verse which has real literary merit.

Robert Huntington Fletcher, A Hi

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.

Sidney Sheldon

Obstacles Can't Stop You, Problems Can't Stop You, People Can't Stop You. Only You Can Stop You!

Jeffrey Gitomer

A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.

Richard Holmes

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.

Orson Scott Card

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Red Skelton

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

Stephen Gardiner

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

Daniel Libeskind

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

Theodore Bikel