Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

Carrie Brownstein

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Cyril Connolly

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Clarence Darrow

They say eyes clear with age.

Philip Larkin

I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.

Celine Dion

Love enables the emergence of ecstasy/ That of enchantment with life

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

Source Unknown

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

Jerry Kramer

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

Fred Rogers

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

John Locke

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

Eva Green