Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Mark Twain

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

Gary Wright

There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Edward Abbey

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.

Christopher Hitchens

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.

Matsuri Hino

I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion.

Heidi Klum

I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.

Celine Dion

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.

Chuang Chou