After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

James A. Froude

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

Steven Pressfield

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.

Aleksandr Pushkin

Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do

Diane Ackerman, A Natural Histor

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

Andrew Motion

Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If you want to get along, go along.

Sam Rayburn

What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

Bishop Westcott

I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.

Shawn Johnson

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

Diana Ross

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

Bill Kristol