Love necessitates eagerness / To shake / January's cold hand / Not avert the eye / And look what comes / To love / Before its making.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Henri Estienne

The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector.

Plato

On Linden, when the sun was low,All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,And dark as winter was the flowOf Iser, rolling rapidly.

Thomas Campbell, Hohenlinden

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Gustave Flaubert

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Thomas Carlyle

Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.

Nancy Cartwright

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

Jesse McCartney

If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

Montel Williams

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage there's no betrayal of trust.

Aldrich Ames

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

Ruth St. Denis

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning