More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Lord Byron

A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Edna Ferber

The word

Anthony Storr, Churchill

One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Sir Hugh Walpole

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake.

Steve Maraboli

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else.

Barbara Delinsky

It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

Guy Pearce

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Donald Knuth

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Josh Billings