One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.

Henry Kravis

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Samuel Johnson

We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of which we can increase out power and in accordance with which we can arrange our life. If this belief is an illusion, then we are in the same position as you. But science has given us evidence by its numerous and important successes that it is no illusion.

Sigmund Freud

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

A. R. Ammons

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

William Shakespeare

I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now.

Josh Hutcherson

Women love only those whom they do not know!

Mikhail Lermontov

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.

Robin Hayes

She was so fat that her belly button makes an echo.

Rodney Dangerfield

We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.

Jeffrey Archer