He took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a couple of birds had been nesting there); he took a strand of it and wound it around his finger. With his other hand he began stroking my face, and then he bent down and kissed me again, this time very cautiously. I closed my eyes - and the same thing happened as before: my brain suffered that delicious break in transmission.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to another.

Robert Louis Stevenson

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

Sylvester Stallone

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Ernest Hemingway

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Ovid

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Amy Winehouse

He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

Source Unknown

Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Leslie Wexner

“ ‘As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says ‘you are nothing,’ I will be a writer.’”

Hunter S. Thompson

I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

Linda Gray

I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.

Thomas Jefferson