No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

John Donne

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.

Joe Moore

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

Kristin Scott Thomas

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

Bonnie Blair

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Susan Sontag

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Samuel Butler

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. a

Henry David Thoreau

It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should derive sexual pleasure from intercourse

Bertrand Russell

The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Albert Einstein

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Ambrose Bierce