People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Leonard Orr

The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voil? une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voil? une chose!

Ezra Pound

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

John Keats

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

Bill Griffith

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools

William John Bennett

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

Michelle Bachelet

The finest fury is the most controlled.

Christopher Hitchens

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

George Bernard Shaw

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt