Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true. We have to keep chipping away.

Deborah M. Gordon

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

Leslie Fiedler

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

Toni Morrison

Phoebus de Chateaupers likewise came to a 'tragic end': he married.

Victor Hugo

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

Dylan Thomas

One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.

Christine McVie

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

J.K. Rowling

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

Michael Chang

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.

Samuel Johnson

Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).

Milan Kundera