It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Bryant H. McGill

Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.

Proverb

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

William Gibson

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Ella Fitzgerald

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

Milton Friedman

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

Thom Yorke

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Oscar Wilde

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

William Shakespeare

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Xun Zi

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.

William Shakespeare

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

Shelley Winters