Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? -- a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

Arthur Miller

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

Tom Colicchio

Sand did not suddenly come into being because we had need for glass and silicone. Neither did wild flowers suddenly spring up because a bunch of environmentalists in Texas wanted alternative ways of helping the world without dumping more chemicals into it - these things were already there.

Stephen Richards

You can trust Charlie Crist.

Charlie Crist

One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.

Sheldon Kopp

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

Henrik Ibsen

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

George Eliot

Time has transfigured them intoUntruth. The stone fidelityThey hardly meant has come to beTheir final blazon, and to proveOur almost-instinct almost true:What will survive of us is love.

Philip Larkin

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George Will

Nature admits no lie.

Thomas Carlyle

It's so easy to ignore loss to others but so difficult to ignore loss to yourself.

Ashik Uzzaman

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Aldous Huxley, In Music at Night