Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Gerhard Kocher

The young boy whistles, hurrying down the street, The young girl hums beneath her breath. One goes out to beauty, and does not know it. And one goes out to death.

Conrad Aiken

It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should derive sexual pleasure from intercourse

Bertrand Russell

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.

Jason Reitman

I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.

Giada De Laurentiis

True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; I never thought the rose's velvet hue Would pale and sicken, though we said good-by. I never dreamed the lark would hush its note As day succeeded ever-drearier day, Nor knew the song that swelled the robin's throat Would fade to silence, when you went away. I never knew the sun's irradiant beams Upon the brooding earth no more would shine, Nor thought that only in my mocking dreams Would happiness that once I knew be mine. I never thought the slim moon, mournfully, Would shroud her pallid self in murky night. Dear heart, I never thought these things would be-I never thought they would, and I was right.

Dorothy Parker, Absence

I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Ambrose Bierce

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

Walt Whitman

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

Tom Petty

... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

Norah Vincent