He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

John Harvey Kellogg

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Charles Horton Cooley

Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.

Katherine Heigl

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

William Dean Howells

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

James Weldon Johnson

Membacalah empat jam sehari dan menulislah empat jam sehari. Kalau kau tidak bisa meluangkan waktu untuk itu, jangan harap kau bisa menjadi penulis yang baik.

Stephen King

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Bill Griffith

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

Will Durant

If there is no door to your dream, create one.

E'yen A. Gardner

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

Karen Armstrong

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

Arthur Smith