She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good...

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Stephen Jay Gould

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

Samuel Butler

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Francois Rabelais

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Josef Stalin

Athletes are very cool to me.

Regina King

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

Bob Ehrlich

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Sinclair Lewis

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Ezra Pound

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Thucydides

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Benjamin Disraeli

Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.

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