Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

Penelope Cruz

The mind of the people is like mud, from which arise strange and beautiful things.

W. J. Turner

Like those statues which must be made larger than nature in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the natural size, certain truths must be strained in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

Joseph Roux

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

I. F. Stone

Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.

Chris Rock

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

George Eliot

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Beatrix Campbell

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Winston Churchill

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Ernest Hemingway

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow