In all things there is a law of cycles.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Mata Hari

At first I was queasy I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

Jonathan Davis

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

Ethan Hawke

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.

Kathleen Turner

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Previous to the time of Pascal, who would have thought of measuring doubt and belief? Who could have conceived that the investigation of petty games of chance would have led to the most sublime branch of mathematical science - the theory of probabilities?

William Stanley Jevons

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

Russell Lynes

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter

Abraham Lincoln

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

Jack Johnson

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Booker T. Washington

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.

Miguel de Cervantes

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

Lewis H. Lapham