All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

Ari Graynor

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Oscar Wilde

I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

John Glenn

To die, to sleep --To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause; there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Susan Sontag

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

Conan O'Brien

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Samuel Richardson

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Publilius Syrus

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Jim Rohn

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

Kurt Vonnegut

I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.

Carson Kressley

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.

Charles Kennedy