It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

Calvin Trillin

I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.

Michael Arad

There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery. Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

Samuel Johnson

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.

Nicolas Cage

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Marian Wright Edelman

Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.How Love burns through the Putting in the SeedOn through the watching for that early birthWhen, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,The sturdy seedling with arched body comesShouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.

Robert Frost, Putting in the See

I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.

Joe Cornish

What is a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

Robert Altman

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

Mario Batali

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

Orson Scott Card