A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

W. Somerset Maugham

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Guy de Maupassant

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Kitty O'neill Collins

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love

Jane Austen

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Soren Kierkegaard

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Willa Cather

If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable.

Christopher Hitchens

There are a lot of movies I've done that come and go, and don't really establish a growing fan base.

Seann William Scott

He wondered if perhaps, subconsciously, he was trying to sabotage her efforts by setting the bar too high, trying to keep her with him longer; but surely his subconscious wasn't that stupid?

Dianne Sylvan

I am just like my mother. She raised me to love and take care of animals, especially the ones that need it the most and so I started Eddie's Rescue Ranch. We take in animals that need extra care and attention and the animals that get left behind.

Kelly Clarkson

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

G. K. Chesterton