Technique is the test of sincerity.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

I think it's the bravest thing in the world - to run straight at love, even knowing how badly you could get hurt.

Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip.

The ones who are in the Senate have to have a position.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

Some of the Hulk movies have been merely okay. I think the thing to do... there has to be some stab that makes it something we haven't seen before.

When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

These 13,000 release occurred on Hillary Clinton's watch. She had the power and the duty to stop it cold, and she decided she would not do it.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

I still want what I've always wanted ... to be the best person I can be.