Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. Joseph Butler Read Quote
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. Anthony Hopkins Read Quote
Once I leave this earth, I know I’ve done something that will continue to help others. Jackie Joyner-Kersee Read Quote
I know that sometimes politics creates situations in which people want to say particular things for political reasons. Reuven Rivlin Read Quote
I’m always a great student of writers’ work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk’s robe, and he always had to have a rotten apple on his desk. The smell of the apple inspired him somehow. Frank McCourt Read Quote
One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. Marie Rutkoski Read Quote
I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible. Robert Towne Read Quote
We cannot arrive at Shakespeare’s whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton’s way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth’s or at Shelley’s, by examining almost any one of their important works. Andrew Coyle Bradley Read Quote
My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
