Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

Henry David Thoreau

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Natalie Clifford Barney

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Burt Lancaster

There are two kinds of people; those who can count and those who can't.

Source Unknown

Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.

Sir Walter Scott

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Thornton Wilder, attributed

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.

Wolfgang Puck

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.

Omar Bradley

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

John Lennon

Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

Source Unknown

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

Baz Luhrmann