I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

Calvin Trillin

You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.

Cassandra Clare

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

Elton John

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Terence

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Albert Camus

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.http://www.twainquotes.com/

Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carol Moseley Braun

I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?http://www.philip-pullman.com/about_the_writing.asp

Philip Pullman, answering What d