The cat is a dilettante in fur.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

I was born to travel and write verse.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

What I write is not for little girls.

Brevity never fatigues therefore brevity is always a welcome guest.

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

If you start to catalog Hillary Clinton's positions between now and 2008, we're going to have a lot of conversations because there are a lot of places for her to go.

The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".

Marketing is not an event, but a process It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely.

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

It would be great if companies could just magically know what I'm looking for on their website or what I'm coming to the website for.

Don't try to explain it, just sell it.

My philosophy is if you're going to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for not a whole lot of money, why work for someone you're not gonna be loyal to?

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

I am so glad I was able to do 'The Originals,' and I want to be a part of that family for a long time.

I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.

I wouldn't want to have the thought police going to people's homes, dictating what they teach their children. I don't want to be Big Brotherish. I would hate that.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart the beauty that forms in your mind the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions all heavenly environment of these if you but remain true to them your world will at last be built

They wanted to do a movie about the Backstreet Boys.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is, of course, critical for humans to breathe and the water important for us to drink.

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

Weather systems are natural heat engines, and like all other heat engines, both natural and artificial, they are driven not by temperature per se, but by differences in temperature between one location and another.