We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

O. Henry

Their daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren't sins. The sin was not to learn from them.

Judith Henry Wall

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Mata Hari

Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression.

Paulo Coelho

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

Burt Reynolds

Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves.

John Fletcher

The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.

Owen Davies

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

Christian Marclay

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind

Robertson Davies

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Kahlil Gibran

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

Huston Smith

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence