I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Richard Holbrooke

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

Martha Reeves

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

George Santayana

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of the universe, and they don't know what it is. Well I do. It's apathy. That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean of Who Gives a Fuck.

David Wong

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

Dan Quayle

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

Jeffrey Wright

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

Hugh Grant

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Thomas Carlyle

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Blaise Pascal