The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.

Colin Hay

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

Anthony Sampson

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

Paul Ryan

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Joseph Campbell

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

Billy Sunday

There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

Paulo Coelho

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

Roberto Cavalli

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

Jean de la Bruyere

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies -- all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

Angela Carter

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

Muhammad Ali

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

Dan Stevens

I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.

Lasse Hallstrom