If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Henry Ward Beecher

He who sings, frightens away all his ills.

Anon.

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Dan Savage

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

Ted Allen

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

Morgan Freeman

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Ambrose Bierce

So that's what we did - rocketing down Sixth Avenue, dashing around the rest of the post-concert crowd, splashing our tracks until our ankles were soaked. You took the lead, and I started to lose my sprint. But then you looked back, stopped, and waited for me to catch up, for me to take your hand, for us to continue to run in the rain, drenched and enchanted, my words to Amanda no longer feeling like a requirement, but a foretelling.

David Levithan

Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.

Jennifer Hudson

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

Tom Hooper

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Martha Graham

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity,Or draw a line daring them to cross.

Anne Spencer, Letter to My Siste

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Hugh Blair