Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

Susan Sontag

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

Bruce Sterling

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98 but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.

Simon Greenleaf

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Arabic Proverb

And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

Dana Rohrabacher

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.

Angela Carter

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

Edie Brickell

By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.

Albert Brooks

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Frank Robinson, attributed

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

CharlesMaurice de Talleyrand