...I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems...

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

E. M. Forster

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Richard Bach

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Vladimir Lenin

Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

William Shakespeare

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

John Steinbeck

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

Stephen Hawking

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

Ben Hogan

If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at least in the sense of this work -- is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.

Ludwig Feuerbach

A young man married is a man that's marred.

William Shakespeare

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

Thad Cochran