But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light years away from me.

The immature person makes excuses to avoid the responsibility of his own potential. -Wade D. Sadlier

Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.

We have to be successful at the cutting-edge industries of the future like Twitter. But we also have always been a country that makes stuff.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

I love TV. I love the stability of it.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

I have strong feelings for you, I just haven't decided if their positive or negitive yet.A

If you study the behavior or the attitude of Syria, Iran, and U.S., you understand that these three countries can't come to terms with each other.

The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.