One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Virginia Woolf

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

Calvin Klein

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Carol Ann Duffy

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Ricky Williams

All in good time is something Cosmic Ordering does not follow.

Stephen Richards

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

Simon Pegg

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

Ernest Hemingway

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.

Sean Astin

Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars

Aristotle

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

George Bernard Shaw

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Laurence J. Peter

Music is always a commentary on society.

Frank Zappa