I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

The old age old story of Yin

Timothy Pina

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

Max Beerbohm

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

Paul Murray Kendall

I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.

Virginia Woolf

I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

Dave Mustaine

Natural history is not about producing fables.

David Attenborough

I would just love to have gone and stood in the Kop.

Kenny Dalglish

But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

Martin Buber

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

George Eliot

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

John Barton

In the cherry blossom's shadethere's no such thingas a stranger.

Kobayashi Issa

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

Heather Donahue