The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

A president, however, must stand somewhat apart, as all great presidents have known instinctively. Then the language which has the power to survive its own utterance is the most likely to move those to whom it is immediately spoken.

J. R. Pole

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

John Hughes

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

Harold Rosenberg, The Dedefiniti

We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope.

Manel Loureiro

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.

Bertrand Russell

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

Salman Rushdie

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

E. W. Howe

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

Kedar Joshi

I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.

Jenny Eclair

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

John Dryden