There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Mark Twain

It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

Khloe Kardashian

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Blaise Pascal

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

Haruki Murakami

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

Taylor Momsen

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Benjamin Jowett

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

Graham Greene

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

Richard Donner

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Herbert Read