The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I love Nature.

Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.

Jodi Picoult

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

Sheldon B. Kopp

Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems

Abraham Lincoln

Instead of replying, Alec reached down and took Magnus's hands. Magnus let Alec pull him to his feet, a questioning look in his eyes. Before he could say anything, Alec drew him closer and kissed him. Magnus made a soft, pleased sound, and gripped the back of Alec's shirt, rucking it up, his fingers cool on Alec's spine. Alec leaned into him, pinning Magnus between the table and his own body. Not that Magnus seemed to mind.'Come on,' Alec said against Magnus's ear. 'It's late. Let's go to bed.

Cassandra Clare

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

Robert Palmer

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.

William Shakespeare

The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of decency. The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

Percy Wynham Lewis

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

John Ruskin

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

Mario Balotelli