Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy.

Deborah Bull

An archaeologist is someone whose career lies in ruins.

Source Unknown

I don't know if I'm built for marriage.

Jamie Foxx

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Simone Weil

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

John Paul Stevens

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Hillary Clinton

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

Jodi Picoult

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. He is a fellow who thoroughly enjoys his work, just as people who take bird walks enjoy theirs. Each excursion of the essayist, each new attempt, differs from the last and takes him into new country. This delights him. Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.There are as many kinds of essays as there are human attitudes or poses, as many essay flavors as there are Howard Johnson ice creams. The essayist arises in the morning and, if he has work to do, selects his garb from an unusually extensive wardrobe: he can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White, The E

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

Indira Gandhi

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

Bell Hooks

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Northrop Frye

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck