Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

J.K. Rowling

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

Jules Verne

A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.

Anon.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

David Hockney

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

Gayle Forman

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Gail Godwin

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

Gordon Getty

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman; but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.

Art Buchwald, Have I Ever Lied t

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Ronald Reagan