You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you!

Maud Muller, on a summer's day, Raked the meadows sweet with hay. Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of simple beauty and rustic health.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather, they look to their portfolios.

Bill Owens

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

George R.R. Martin

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world,it will all be much simpler.

Louis D. Brandeis

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Pablo Picasso

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.

Philippe Sollers

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

E. Y. Harburg

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

Brian Tracy

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

Helen Rowland

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

James Frey

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

Jerry Saltz