The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Cher

America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

Archibald MacLeish

It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.

Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel

he was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Leo Tolstoy

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

Lily Collins

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

C.S. Lewis

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Sometimes we want something so bad, but when we get it, there is still an emptiness inside. The real secret is to enjoy the journey to the goal and learn from all the experiences.

Inshan Meahjohn

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

Marisa Tomei

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

William Irwin Thompson

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Les Brown