I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

Christina Rossetti

I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

Zosia Mamet

We had incense and rock'n'roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going.

Tommy Hilfiger

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

Victor Serge

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

Michael Reagan

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

Francis Bacon

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Rudyard Kipling

A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Oscar Wilde

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Barbara Walters

Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

Steve Jobs

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

Giambattista Vico