Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

...those works that don't touch the heart, it seems to me, miss the true aim of Art.

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.

And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable.

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

I'm not in the business of harassing anybody

Be careful of those who kill in Jesus' name; he don't believe in killing at all.

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.

The fact that I'd gone through my own transition as governor of Indiana and had been informed by that experience, I think was an asset.

We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.