'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.

The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.

A moment's thinking is an hour in words.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying; Old age, begin sighing!

O bed O bed delicious bed That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

Dear bells how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim

Such a blush In the midst of brown was born Like red poppies grown with corn.

The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations.

Theres a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

He comes to the world as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Oh! if it be to choose and call thee mine, / Love, thou art every day my Valentine.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics.

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.

I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.

There is something about a theatre room that is really like a laboratory for trying things and failing, because you have time to do that, and you can explore something deeply and discard it if it's not working.

It would be just as pointless to oppose the international use of English today as it would have been to oppose the worldwide use of French in the 18th century.

Everyone is someone else's catalyst for selling something these days.

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe.

Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.

The classical music world is so snobbish.

I really love horror novels, horror films, that are pointing at deeper ideas and thematic meaning. It's a way of thinking about films differently; that's what I think I like the most about it. I love the fact that's it's pointing at a more mysterious world - that the world is more of a mysterious place than we tend to let ourselves believe.

If you manage things properly - and, listen, I'm a business guy. I've got to prioritize spending in all my business career to prevent my business from going bankrupt. The federal government has got to start doing that eventually as well.

Rabbis throughout the ages, from Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook onward, strictly prohibited going up on the Temple Mount. And now there is a minority group of rabbis encouraging Jews to go.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

Don't judge a book by its cover.

I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

I get double-takes at the hardware store. I've had people say, 'I didn't know you did this.' With a celebrity, if folks don't see you, they think all you do is stay in the house.

I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.

The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold War. The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King.