Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

James Russell Lowell

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

George Eliot

My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

Charles Kennedy

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

Jeffrey Sachs

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

Danny Boyle

All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.

Thomas E. Lawrence

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

Robert Atkins

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Oh, about beer I never lie. A man who lies about beer makes enemies.

Stephen King

When will reality come closer to the truth?

Loesje

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

Margaret Cho

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

James Dickey