Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

John Milton

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

Anish Kapoor

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a toddler. What I wanted to say to you, but didn't, was this:

Jodi Picoult

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

Jane Austen

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Samuel Butler, Samuel Butler, 19

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

C.S. Lewis

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

Jet Li

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government Economic policies will work.

W. Allen Wallis