The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

Samuel Goldwyn

love is the every only god

E.E. Cummings

You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

Alton Brown

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson

This place,This place with all creatures and their pain, This place is beautiful all the same.This place, with it's ice and heat and rain, Darkest depths, roughest terrain,With it's disaster's, sorrow's, shame...This place is beautiful...And is yours to betterAnd not to blame.

Evette Carter

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Yann Martel

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.

John Warnock

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

Amy Poehler

O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other; but what relation this has with freedom I cannot understand at all. I feel that I will to light my pipe and I do it; but how can I connect this up with the idea of freedom? What is behind the act of willing to light the pipe? Another act of willing? Schopenhauer once said: Der Mensch kann was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will (Man can do what he will but he cannot will what he wills).

Albert Einstein

The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson