I think I'm a romantic person, yeah.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

LaoTzu

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

John Drinkwater

[T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life.

Christopher Hitchens

The sea -- this truth must be confessed -- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities -- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness -- has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Joseph Conrad

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

Bobby Darin

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

Mitch Hedberg

The white noise in his heart, the sum of all his colors the metronome to which he beat [was she].

Coco J. Ginger

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals

Mark Twain

The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Marcel Duchamp

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato