"Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'."
Anonymous
"Acquiring knowledge doesn't bring power into your life, until you apply what you have learned."
Anonymous
"God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to changeGive me strength to change what I canAnd give me wisdom to distinguish one from another."
Marcus Aurelius
"The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble."
Harry Connick
"The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance."
Paul Washer
"Ghosts are just our minds telling us that subconsciously we feel guilty about something we should have done, would have done, but never took the time!"
Nell Rose
"If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?"
Alphonse de Lamartine
"Truth hides behind the curtain of illusion. We often get lost in illusion and forget to find the truth."
Debasish Mridha
"Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit."
Doris Day
"Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you."
Paul McCartney
"When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?"
Aeschylus
"This is what creation is. The might and marvel of forever creating out of opposition."
Florida Scott-Maxwell
"I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly."
Umberto Eco
"I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser."
John Updike
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
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