One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
Sandra Cisneros
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.
John Desmond Bernal
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
Robert Morgan
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
Slavoj Zizek
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln
Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.
Rebecca Solnit
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Marilyn Monroe