It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the knee plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent?

Julia Kavanagh

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

Eric Allin Cornell

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

James Madison

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Ovid

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Benjamin Disraeli

That the wall is coming down.

Cassandra Clare

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Saint Augustine

I came from a real tough neighborhood. In the local restaurant I sat down and had broken leg of lamb.

Rodney Dangerfield

I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.

Rick Santorum

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Gene Moorse

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Wilfred Owen

The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.

Andy Serkis