It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. -Rainer Maria Rilke. I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. Love can consign us to hell or paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. -Paulo Coelho. I must let go in order to let anything in. -Sabrina Ward Harrison. Death without dread of death is welcome death. -Seneca. When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. -Albert Einstein. There was almost no famous lord, nor prince, nor great woman, who was not painted by Titian. -Giorgio Vasari. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you. Mr. Bush, shame on you. -Michael Moore. Early morning hath gold in its mouth. -Benjamin Franklin. The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" -Jack Kerouac. The willow tree plays the water like a harp. -Ramon Gomez de la Serna. If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it. -Fred Allen. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. -Noam Chomsky. We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. -Percey Byshe Shelley. It is better to be hated for you are than loved for who you are not. -Phlostigin Verdigris. We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. -Marquis de Sade. 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. -Thomas Campbell. Whenever I feel blue I start breathing again. -L. Frank Baum. The most important deals in the movie industry are finalized on the sun-drenched turf of golf courses or around turquoise swimming pools, where the smell of barbecue sauce is born on gentle breezes and wafts over the stereo system of houses that people seldom leave. -Shirley MacLaine. Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade, and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings. -George V. Higgins. Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. -Bertrand Russel. Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. -Frank Lloyd Wright. A human being isn't an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in. -Sara Jeannette Duncan. Purple is like sex personified - it's like something from Agent Provocateur with spaghetti straps and nothing like enough support. -Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. -Alexander Pope. There is no dark side of the moon. As a matter of fact, it's all dark. -Pink Floyd. It is a gorgeous, great rose-pink cavern of highly unconventional Gothic, a marvelous enclosure of space, a dated and unforgettable masterpiece of breathtaking audacity and extravagance. -Unknown. In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. -Hubert H. Humphrey. Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby. -Samuel Rutherford. It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. -Horace. The wheel is come full circle. -William Shakespeare. Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? -Richard Feynman.