Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

C.S. Lewis

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

Virginia Woolf

Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.

Suzanne Fields

In thy foul throat thou liest.

William Shakespeare

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

The American dream is about freedom.

Nancy Pelosi

I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Harold Ford

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

Don Johnson

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

John Lancaster Spalding

So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.

Raymond Chandler