For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

Josh Billings

The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

Rob Brydon

One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

John Green

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

Skeet Ulrich

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

George H. W. Bush

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

Marilyn Monroe

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

Mason Cooley

Freedom can occur only through education.

Friedrich Schiller

Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

Ernest Hemingway

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

Shaun White

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

Boris Spassky

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Fay Weldon