Music is the key to the female heart.

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Anthony Sampson

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.possible source for the famous quotation attributed to Burke: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. See also Plato's quotation in topic 'apathy'

Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Ca

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

Eric Hoffer

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I did the cover of Cigar Aficionado, so I'm supposed to talk about loving cigars. I've smoked them a couple of times. My father used to smoke cigars. I love the idea and the concept, and I love the smell of cigars.

Gina Gershon

I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

Clive Owen

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Alexander Hamilton

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.

Leonard Cohen

There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best overall setting to make discoveries about the world around us. We don't think this is merely coincidental. It cries out for another explanation, an explanation that... points to purpose and intelligent design in the cosmos.

Guillermo Gonzalez

I shall know by the gleam and glitter Of the golden chain you wear, By your heart's calm strength in loving, Of the fire you have had to bear. Beat on, true heart, forever; Shine bright, strong golden chain; And bless the cleansing fire And the furnace of living pain!

Adelaide Proctor

Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

Etta James