I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm judicial pen And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams an intensity of expectation that in the end diminishes the reality.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude and nothing more important.

Euthanasia is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Good fellowship unflagging is the prime requisite for success in our society and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Performance is an act of faith.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

I'm into the idea of responsibility and edification and these things have found me and I have found them. I wanted to be in the movie and I made it known to Mike.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.