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.

When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.

Marian Anderson

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

Jeff Sessions

I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.

Kina Grannis

Please, touch me, I pray.

Jess C. Scott

When I was eight, I played Little League. I was on first; Istole third; I went straight across. Earlier that week, Ilearned that the shortest distance between two points was adirect line. I took advantage of that knowledge.

Steven Wright

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Stephen Leacock

I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.

Betty White

Instinct is untaught ability.

Alexander Bain

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.

Wayne Dyer

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.

David Attenborough

How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd let her slip away, never able to bring himself to tell her about the ways in which he'd been changed. He'd been incapable he'd let Nenebah believe the problem lay with her.

Aminatta Forna

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

David Mamet