Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

Mia Hamm

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Murray N. Rothbard, Capitalism v

There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it.

Christopher Hitchens

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

A.A. Milne

Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.

Stephen Hawking

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

Jerry Orbach

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

Marlene Dietrich

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.

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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Robert Morgan

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

John Edward Masefield, from Sea

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

H. L. Mencken