The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.

Christopher Morley

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Walter Lippmann

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

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Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Jim Butcher

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.

Alison Krauss

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Miguel de Cervantes

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Jan Schakowsky

Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

John Ruskin

You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

John Ruskin