Wistaria sprays, as they trail in the breeze, suggest softness, gentleness, reticence. Disappearing and then appearing again in the early summer greenery, they have in them that feeling for the poignant beauty of things long characterized by the Japanese as mono no aware.

Better never begin than never make an end.

George Herbert

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it.

Holly Madison

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces

C.S. Lewis

Of course, being brave does not mean running towards danger.

Janaki Sooriyarachchi

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

Hillary Clinton

I need new prayers, the old ones don't work anymore.

Ruchir Joshi

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Carl T. Rowan

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

Julien Benda

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

James Russell Lowell

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

Brett Ratner

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Karl Albrecht