-- Confucius
“He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.” -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.” -- Samuel Johnson “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.” -- Oscar Wilde "Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels." -- Andrew Motion “My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. Heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill; but what you want is passionate virtuosity.” -- John Barth “I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.” -- Emily Dickinson |