A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Hubert Humphrey

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

Jerry Saltz

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.

Leonardo da Vinci

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Anatole France

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

David Attenborough

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Johann von Goethe

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

Charles Barkley

Judgment is a negative frequency.

Stephen Richards

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

Solange Knowles

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Ambrose Bierce

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

John Ruskin

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

Della Reese