Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief

Lionel Trilling

The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

Vera Farmiga

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.

Ayn Rand

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Walter Benjamin

The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.

Junior Seau

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

Lois Capps

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

Bob Geldof

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Blaise Pascal

Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.

Thomas Hobbes

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

George Santayana

I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.

Carrie Ann Inaba