To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

My daughter is my passion and my life.

Tamara Mellon

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Russell Baker

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

Jodie Foster

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Anita Loos

At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?

Edgar Fawcett

I did a shoot for 'Sports Illustrated,' and my grandpa called me and asked when my issue of 'Playboy' was coming out. It was hilarious as well as embarrassing.

Jasmine Tookes

Age is no more near than youth To the sceptre and the crown. Vain the wisdom, vain the truth; Do not lay thy rapture down.

George William Russell

Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.

Terry Pratchett

My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.

Branford Marsalis

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Henri Frederic Amiel

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

Alexandra Kosteniuk