Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.Oscar Wilde
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.Tom Stoppard
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.Honoré de Balzac
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.Ernest Hemingway
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.Mark Twain
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.Winston Churchill
I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.Salman Rushdie
You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.Steve Jobs
