Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

William Shakespeare

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

John Arthorne

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

Cher

Truth's like a dollar-piece, it's got two sides, and both are wanted to make it good currency.

John Buchan

Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse

Benjamin Franklin

There is no try. There is only do.

John Green

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

Philip Guston

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

Vivienne Westwood

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

Sara Teasdale

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

C.S. Lewis

This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

Robert F. Kennedy

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin