One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

Cruel, but composed and bland,Dumb, inscrutable and grand,So Tiberius might have sat,Had Tiberius been a cat.

Matthew Arnold

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Sophocles

Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

Steve Earle

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

G. K. Chesterton

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Sarah Vowell

It's good to be clever, but not to show it.

Proverb

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.

Puff Daddy

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Burt Lancaster

To look pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Jane Austen

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

Arabella Weir

¡Si nuestra amistad depende de cosas como el espacio y el tiempo, entonces, cuando por fin superemos el espacio y el tiempo, habremos destruido nuestra propia hermandad! Pero supera el espacio, y nos quedará sólo un Aquí. Supera el tiempo, y nos quedará sólo un Ahora. Y entre el Aquí y el Ahora, ¿no crees que podremos volver a vernos un par de veces?

Richard Bach

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Karl Shapiro