Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for Being.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

There is no truth but untruth. There is no reason but unreason.

Edmund Cooper

The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.

Jimmy Fallon

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

J. C. Macaulay

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

Francesca Annis

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

Billy Wilder

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.

Samuel Johnson

Reason, progress, unselfishness, a wide historical perspective, expansiveness, generosity, enlightened self-interest. I had heard it all my life, and it filled me with despair.

Katherine Tait

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

James Franco

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.

Marco Rubio

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

Bill Cosby