I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

William Shakespeare

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity.... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

Meister Eckhart

I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone.

Elizabeth Banks

Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.

Marc Andreessen

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself you want to try even harder to make it work.

Princess Diana

In a state of conflict or a conflicted state.

Christopher Hitchens

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

James Buchan

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.

Romeo LeBlanc

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

Oscar Wilde

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

George Bernard Shaw

They had their cynical code worked out. The public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket.

George Orwell

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Barbara Walters