The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Joseph Conrad

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

Terrell Owens

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

Abraham Lincoln

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

Oscar Wilde

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

David Allan Coe

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

Marc Newson

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Brigitte Bardot

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

BernardHenri Levy

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

Anatole France

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Francis Bacon

... for words have the power to change us.

Cassandra Clare