Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Oliver Goldsmith

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

Ted Turner

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

Jim Clark

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Norman Cousins

But perhaps the most mysterious thing he ever said about it was this. I was questioning him on the subject

C.S. Lewis

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

David Mamet

It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.

Emma Frances Dawson

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Francis Bacon

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Jane Austen

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

Barry Commoner

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Thomas Carlyle

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Henry David Thoreau