There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo.Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic.Nothing is more sublime.

Victor Hugo

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Robert Redford

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Mary Caroline Richards

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

Brian May

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

Steven Wright

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

Cardinal J. Newman

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

Michel de Montaigne

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Matthew Arnold

I'm a goddess in your eyes, and I will never die. I was born of people's needs, and what they don't wanna believe. But I am a liar, that's the truth, go home and think it through. That's the harm in mystery, all you know is what you see. I got no idols.

Juliana Hatfield

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

Frank McCourt

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

Margaret Oliphant