When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Joyce Cary

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

Wentworth Miller

Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Albert Einstein

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

Cee Lo Green

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Saul Bellow

Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, selfrestraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

Jimmy Townsend

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Michel de Montaigne

In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.

Henry Clay

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Mark Twain

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

George MacDonald