real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
AGNES REPPLIERWhatever is not forbidden is permitted.
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When I was ten, my family moved to Downer’s Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
EMO PHILIPS -
I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, ‘You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly.
MICK JAGGER -
I’m fifty-one years old, but I’m not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
HEDY LAMARR -
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
HENRY KISSINGER -
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
JEAN COCTEAU -
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
ELBERT HUBBARD -
A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.
BERNARD LAW MONTGOMERY -
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
BARBARA CARTLAND -
Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.
FIDEL CASTRO -
After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano.
BILLY WILDER -
I like to have this gut to put my elbow on it when I putt because I did it for so long. I just feel healthier this way.
JOHN DALY -
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
THOMAS EDISON -
If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn’t be fun; but since I’m like me, it’s okay.
BRANFORD MARSALIS -
Have the courage to make everything around you grow, including yourself.
LAURA CLEGG -
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
MARK TWAIN -
Politics have no relation to morals.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI -
I can’t point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother’s ability and energy.
BETTY FRIEDAN -
Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSON -
It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women’s clothes.
BARRY WATSON -
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
SOPHOCLES -
There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration.
BENJAMIN CREME -
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
THOMAS MANN -
The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.
ARUNDHATI ROY -
Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.
BOBBY JINDAL -
I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.
ALESSANDRO VOLTA