Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.
— Walter Savage Landor
There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever. — Bill Vaughan
The true direction of her heart: that is to say, inwards, to the reality of dreams. — Salman Rushdie
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. — Samuel Prout
I'm exhausted when I get home, even though the school day was the equivalent of a seven-hour yawn without Galen or Chloe. — Anna Banks
By focusing only on jobs and inflation - and, in effect, only on the former - the Fed behaved myopically, indeed politically. — Raghuram G. Rajan
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare! — Cynthia Ozick
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book. — Alfred Hitchcock
By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done. — Philip Yancey
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny. — Philip Yancey
It's odd because some actors are very scared of comedians. — Robert Webb
Have I told you? - your eyes are a dark poem of dancing snow at midnight ... — John Geddes
