What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

Brad Garrett

Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?

George Eliot

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

I don’t care that they stole my idea. I care that they don’t have any of their own.

Nikola Tesla

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.

John Clayton

I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.

Calvin Johnson

Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

Lord Chesterfield

Show me slowly what I onlyknow the limits ofDance me to the end of love

Leonard Cohen

While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.

Robert Teeter

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Ellen DeGeneres

Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

Virginia Woolf