Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.

Mitt Romney

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

Murray Walker

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Max Fuller

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

Ian Mcewan

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

John Sladek

I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it.

Molly Shannon

If your outgo exceeds your income your upkeep will be your downfall.

Anon., attributed to Bill Earle,

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

Honore de Balzac

I always got great respect as a bass player.

Bill Wyman

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

Orson Scott Card

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Arne Jacobsen