Man reaches his perfection, not through what he has, not even through what he does, but entirely through what he is.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Emily Dickinson

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

Camille Paglia

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

Lewis Thomas

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

Bo Derek

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Primo Levi

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

Vera Farmiga

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

Reese Witherspoon

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

Roger McGuinn

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Cardinal De Richelieu

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman

They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us

William Shakespeare