Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

Sean O'Casey

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

Chrisette Michele

They told me adventures were over, so I got off the internet and got on a plane. They told me kindness was a thing of the past, so I spent a year helping others in need. They told me love was dead, so I fell into it. Head over heels.

Abby Lass

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

Eva Green

He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

Placido Domingo

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

William Shakespeare

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Owen C. Middleton

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

Martha Plimpton

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Christopher Morley

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

R. A. Salvatore