All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

Matthew Arnold

In time of war the laws are silent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well.

Robert Pattinson

Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.

William Gibson

Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it.

Ogwo David Emenike

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

Joe Biden

There are more nasty things in pretty packages in the world than most people would believe.

Mercedes Lackey

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

Benjamin Harrison

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Doris Lessing

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Johann von Goethe

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

Richard Russo

In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.

George J. Mitchell