The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

Tony Scott

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Sadhu Vaswani

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Anita Brookner

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

Brian Aldiss

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.

Sara Paretsky

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

Emiliano Zapata

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Dame Edith Evans

Anger is short madness

Horace

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

Ernest Gaines

To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the naturalBeauty, is the sole business of poetry.The rest's diversion: those holy or noble sentiments, the intricate ideas,The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason.

Robinson Jeffers