Willa Sibert Cather

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

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Walter Benjamin

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

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Cicero

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

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David Brinkley

The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

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Brendan Behan

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

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Gary Lee Phillips

In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.

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Jerry Chin

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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Paul Valery

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

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Louise Erdrich

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

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