We know so well what we are doing ourselves and why we do it, do we not? I fancy that there is some truth in the view which is being put forward nowadays, that it is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Joseph Brodsky

Altruism is for thosewho can't endure their desires.There's a worldas ambiguous as a moan,a pleasure moanour earnest neighborsmight think a crime.It's where we could live.I'll say I love you,Which will lead, of course,to disappointment,but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.--Mon Semblable

Stephen Dunn

I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.

William Hazlitt

To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish

Benjamin Franklin

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.

Randy Quaid

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Frank Crane

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?

Source Unknown

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Virginia Woolf

I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.

Teddy Thompson

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

Tiger Woods

James Franco has this interesting and relaxed look. It's pretty 'I don't care,' but it still looks good. Ryan Gosling also has amazing style. I take a lot of my fashion tips from those two. In my opinion, they're the ones getting it right.

Josh Henderson

People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon.

Paulo Coelho