A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Ernest Hemingway

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

Thomas Frank

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

Sinclair Lewis

The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.

Henry David Thoreau

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

Philip Emeagwali

To those who will see, the world waits.

Libba Bray

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

Kurt Vonnegut

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

George Eliot

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

John Major

But it doesn't change what we are to each other. It's like there's always been a piece of my soul missing, and it's inside you, Clary. I know I told you once that wheter God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not.

Cassandra Clare

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

Doris Roberts

Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me?

Gwynn Thomas