A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

George Eliot

I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.

Leonard Cohen

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Robert Collier

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

W. H. Auden

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

Bertrand Russell

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Roger Bannister

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Theodore Roosevelt

These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

Victoria Beckham

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

Robert De Niro

My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.

Danny Pudi

I'm not stupid!' In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Orson Scott Card

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ani DiFranco