Life is a great bundle of little things

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

Cardinal De Richelieu

For, stripped of the temporary associations which gave rise to it, it is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Addr

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Eric Gill

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.

Johnny Depp

I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.

Thomas Hardy

I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.

Lexa Doig

This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.

Paulo Coelho

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Eugene McCarthy

I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing and thinking. I'm trying to become acquainted with the universe -- with the part of it I occupy -- and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is.as cited by Susan Sackett, author of Inside Trek: A Star Trek Memoir, used with permission

Gene Roddenberry, Starlog Magazi

The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Nancy Astor