Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.

I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!

Orson Scott Card

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Hosea Ballou

I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.

Drew Barrymore

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

Norman Rockwell

Creativity leads others to where I lead you, to an unseen beauty, so ineffable its very beauty destroys itself...

Fola

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

Robert Carlyle

It's easy to grow old if you haven't grown up

John Hively

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Max Beckmann

I will give you the best I have.

George C. Marshall

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible.

George Washington

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky