Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.

Mike Judge

Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Robert Brustein

The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to make it memorable.

Morris Hite

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

Ralph Ellison

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

Hillary Clinton

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

J. C. Watts

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

Andrew Tobias

You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave meThere's no words to describe itIn French or in EnglishWell, diamonds they fadeAnd flowers they bloomAnd I'm telling youThese feelings won't go awayThey've been knockin' me sidewaysThey've been knockin' me out latelyWhenever you come around meThese feelings won't go away They've been knockin' me sidewaysI keep thinking in a moment thatTime will take them awayBut these feelings won't go away.

Citizen Cope

I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

Michele Bachmann

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.

Joseph Addison

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.

Charles Dickens

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Saint Francis of Assisi