Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Henry David Thoreau

The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

Jackie Joyner Kersee

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Aeschylus

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Julie Andrews

'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.

Tommy Davidson

To show his nervousness was not shameful; only to admit it.

Ernest Hemingway

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Winston Churchill

You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.

Sarah Schulman

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

Olive Schreiner

A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat

Roy Blount, Jr.

People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of the stories as real, and some as fiction. But she honored them all, though she didn't buy every one.

Louise Penny

I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.

Tom Perrotta