It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative!

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song

Charles Kingsley

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

Marguerite Moreau

You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.

Christine Feehan

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

Woody Allen

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

Siddharth Katragadda

I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler whose son now says,

Bill Cosby

As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

C.S. Lewis

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

Sandra Day O'Connor

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

James A. Garfield

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

James Broughton

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Simone Weil

Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.

William Makepeace Thackeray