one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought.

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

Lucille Ball

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Joseph Roux

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

Gene Tierney

Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.

Ed O'Brien

Power is the ability to get things done.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Charles Darwin

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

Johnny Depp

You'll may not have all the things you'll want in the world, but the true love that you'll have for each other should be enough for you two to be thankful in life still.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

C.S. Lewis