She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.

Andrew Wiles

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Jean Cocteau

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

Nicolas Roeg

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Mae West

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau

My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.

Sharon Tate

and so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

Mark Twain

She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.

Dudley Clendinen

If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string

Benny Bellamacina

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Cyril Connolly

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Demosthenes

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh it's what you look like.'

Gina Carano