Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Hilaire Belloc

Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that's usually working in Asian food.

Tom Colicchio

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

Paul McCartney

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Aldous Huxley

For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

Isaac Watts, Divine Songs. Song

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Helen Rowland

I wanted your songs. You wanted my songs more than you wanted my happiness. So you took my happiness, and stole my songs.

Orson Scott Card

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Stephen Hawking

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

William Howard Taft

He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

Robertson Davies

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Benjamin Franklin

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

Michael N. Castle