There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

Susan Orlean

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

Confucius

I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.

Jim Lampley

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

Mark Pryor

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Samuel Johnson

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oscar Wilde

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

Bertrand Russell

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

David Herbert Lawrence

If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

Michel de Montaigne

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model. With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul's style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies.

Jean Cocteau

Don't worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.

Brett Hull