Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and the world.

Helena Rubinstein

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Mario Vargas Llosa

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

Mike Gordon

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Your answer is the logical, coherent answer an absolutely normal person would give: It's a tie! A lunatic, however, would say that what I have around my neck is a ridiculous, useless bit of colored cloth tied in a very complicated way, which makes it harder to get air into your lungs and difficult to turn your neck. I have to be careful when I'm anywhere near a fan, or I could be strangled by this bit of cloth.If a lunatic were to ask me what this tie is for, I would have to say, absolutely nothing. It's not even purely decorative, since nowadays it's become a symbol of slavery, power, aloofness. The only really useful function a tie serves is the sense of relief when you get home and take it off; you feel as if you've freed yourself from something, though quite what you don't know.

Paulo Coelho

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Alan Watts

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

J. B. Priestley

In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

Bill Watterson

The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the desert wastes where they had so lately been.

Stephen King

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

Tom Petty

If our Bodily Life is a burning, our Spiritual Life is a being burnt, a Combustion (or, is precisely the inverse the case?); Death, therefore, perhaps a Change of Capacity.

Novalis

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

Liam Neeson