Read over your compositions and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine strike it out.
Samuel JohnsonIn every power of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.
Jane AustenPart of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.
Alice WalkerI am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
John Stuart MillDifficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Simone WeilAll nature is but art unknown to thee.
Alexander PopeI wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. ThompsonEvery reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore RooseveltI've run into some S.O.B. directors but I gave them back as good as I got.
Carroll O'Connor