All the same, we ought to point out that if the kinds of poetry and representation which are designed merely to give pleasure can come up with a rational argument for their inclusion in a well-governed community, we'd be delighted -- short of compromising the truth as we see it, which wouldn't be right -- to bring them back from exile: after all, we know from our own experience all about their spell. I mean haven't ever fallen under the spell of poetry, Glaucon, especially when the spectacle is provided by Homer?

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

If you want an audience start a fight.

Proverb

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

John Green

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

Ricky Martin

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

William Shakespeare

I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

Paris Hilton

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

P. J. O'Rourke

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

Quentin Crisp

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Ambrose Bierce

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end.CLAUDIUS Alas, alas.HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this?HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

William Shakespeare

Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.

Walter Salles

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Paulo Coelho