Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Ogden Nash

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

Michael Novak

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

Virginia Woolf

And still the question, What shall be done with our ex-Presidents? is not laid at rest; and I sometimes think Wattersons solution of it, Take them out and shoot them, is worthy of attention.

Grover Cleveland

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Bernard Mandeville

It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

Rob Thomas

Happy is your Grace That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style

William Shakespeare

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Edith Sitwell

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

Eric Raymond

I am so happy, so in love, and so content.

Brooke Burns