Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

John Ashbery

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

Haley Joel Osment

No, a fool learns from experience. A wise man learns from the experience of others.

Otto von Bismarck, reply when to

I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.

Leonardo DiCaprio

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

Idris Elba

The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

Marshall McLuhan

That is the thankless position of the father in the family -- the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

J. August Strindberg

The soul needs beauty for a soul mate. When the soul wantsthe soul waits

U2

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

Wallace Stevens

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

Anne Rice

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

The child is the father of the man.

William Wordsworth