Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Martin Scorsese

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Lord Chesterfield

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

Frederic William Farrar

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

Peter Carey

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.

David Kay

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

Bill Rancic

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

Jane Austen

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

Arthur Rimbaud

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Charles Caleb Colton

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

Paul Valery

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer