Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
ALFRED E. SMITH Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, y...
ALFRED E. SMITH The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
ALFRED E. SMITH The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
ALFRED E. SMITH No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to s...
ALFRED E. SMITH It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with wh...
ALFRED E. SMITH Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
ALFRED SMITH Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, y...
ALFRED SMITH The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
ALFRED SMITH It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with wh...
ALFRED SMITH All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
ALFRED SMITH No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to s...
ALFRED SMITH Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
ALFRED E NEWMAN Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
ALFRED E. NEWMAN A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
ALFRED E. WIGGAM Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.
ALFRED E. NEUMAN Money still talks these days! Trouble is, you have to increase the volume alot!
ALFRED E. NEUMAN We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish i...
ALFRED E. NEUMAN Today it takes more brains and effort to make out the income tax form than it does to make the incom...
ALFRED E. NEUMAN Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of ...
ALFRED EMANUEL SMITH Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues a...
ALFRED EMANUEL SMITH All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
ALFRED EMANUEL SMITH It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
ALFRED EMANUEL SMITH Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
F. E. SMITH The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
F. E. SMITH Emily tucks her knees up beneath her and leans forward on the table. 'Do you like Ryan?' she asks Ni...
JENNIFER E. SMITH Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
JENNIFER E. SMITH He looks at her and smiles. "You're sort of dangerous, you know?"
She stares at him. "Me?" JENNIFER E. SMITH Clare's been called a lot of things- smart and funny, driven and talented- but memorable certainly i...
JENNIFER E. SMITH I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
MARK E. SMITH That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, sha...
JENNIFER E. SMITH After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be runnin...
JENNIFER E. SMITH People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people w...
JENNIFER E. SMITH I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.
MARK E. SMITH People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline.....
JENNIFER E. SMITH But it was different, somehow, to be reading it here, where the actual events had taken place all th...
JENNIFER E. SMITH They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point...
JENNIFER E. SMITH There was a lot of pretense floating around; not just with aunties and all that but with emotions an...
MARK E. SMITH If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.
MARK E. SMITH Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.
JENNIFER E. SMITH My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.
MARK E. SMITH And when the time finally comes to say good-bye, she'll swallow hard against the tightness of her th...
JENNIFER E. SMITH It's not about winning or losing, really,” he’s saying. “It’s just the showing up every day....
JENNIFER E. SMITH Talking to you is one of my favorite things to do."

"Top 10?" she asked.

"Top ...
JENNIFER E. SMITH She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them l...
JENNIFER E. SMITH Hi,' he says.
'Hi,' she says back, and then to her great surprise, she begins to cry.
'You...
JENNIFER E. SMITH Beside her, she can feel each breath he draws. How is it possible to be so close to a person and sti...
JENNIFER E. SMITH She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers...
JENNIFER E. SMITH But how could she tell him that the reason she always acted so disinterested in everything was becau...
JENNIFER E. SMITH There are certain things in life that you'll be forgiven for, no matter how thoughtless or stupid or...
JENNIFER E. SMITH Is it possible not to ever know your type--not to even know you have a type--until quite suddenly yo...
JENNIFER E. SMITH The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucke...
JENNIFER E. SMITH Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you ...
JENNIFER E. SMITH He’s like a song she can’t get out of her
head.
JENNIFER E. SMITH I'm not sure I even believe in marriage," Hadley says and he looks surprised.

"Aren't you...
JENNIFER E. SMITH There's a kind of unfamiliar electricity that goes through her at the nearness of him, and she can't...
JENNIFER E. SMITH The moment a man buries the God of his ancestors, the God preached to him but not experienced by him...
VICTOR E. SMITH Well, I guess we all can't have epic loves at such a young age.
JENNIFER E. SMITH What are you really studying?"
He leans back to look at her. "The statistical probability of l...
JENNIFER E. SMITH He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men ...
JENNIFER E. SMITH Look what a hard time I've given him. But no matter how many times I've pushed him away, he always c...
JENNIFER E. SMITH Hadley grabs the laminated safety instructions from the seat pocket in front of her and frowns at th...
JENNIFER E. SMITH You know what they say, if you love something, set it free.
JENNIFER E. SMITH But Hadley understood. It wasn't that she was meant to read them all. Maybe someday she would, but f...
JENNIFER E. SMITH There’s always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization.
JENNIFER E. SMITH And see those clouds?'
'Hard to miss'
'Those are cumulus clouds. Did you know that?'
...
JENNIFER E. SMITH Hadley didn't know it was possible to miss someone who's only a few feet away, but there it is.
JENNIFER E. SMITH Love isn't supposed to make sense. It's completely illogical.
JENNIFER E. SMITH And in August it will be fifty-two years together.”
“Wow,” Oliver says. “That’s amazi...
JENNIFER E. SMITH Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you ...
JENNIFER E. SMITH There's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you'...
JENNIFER E. SMITH Because I was with you," he tells her. "I feel better when I'm with you.
JENNIFER E. SMITH You know what they say," Dad said. "If you love something, set it free."
"What if he doesn't co...
JENNIFER E. SMITH Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?
JENNIFER E. SMITH I like how you're neither here nor there. And how there's nowhere else you're meant to be while wait...
JENNIFER E. SMITH I can't believe you're here," she says, her voice soft. "I can't believe you found me."

"...
JENNIFER E. SMITH It's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone...
JENNIFER E. SMITH Did you know that people who meet at least three different times within twenty-four hour period are ...
JENNIFER E. SMITH What are you really studying?"
He leans back to look at her. "The statistical probability of lo...
JENNIFER E. SMITH He’s like a song she can’t get out of her head. Hard as she tries, the melody of their meeting r...
JENNIFER E. SMITH It's not the changes that will break your heart; it's that tug of familiarity.
JENNIFER E. SMITH 'Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and w...
MARK E. SMITH After walking the Royal Mile, we visit Edinburgh Castle. Overlooking the city from the grassy hillto...
JACQUELINE E. SMITH I haven’t even been here an hour and already, Edinburgh is the city of my dreams.
JACQUELINE E. SMITH Tonight, Dunadhar Castle is ours.
JACQUELINE E. SMITH In my stories, I wrote Malcolm as fire and gold and power, but here in my arms, Colin is cedar, silv...
JACQUELINE E. SMITH I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve.
Three days in and they've got faces li...
MARK E. SMITH Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 More things are wrought by prayer Than this...
ALFRED I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS (i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
That’s not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey pl...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.
ALFRED MOLINA When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
ALFRED NOBEL No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ...
ALFRED ADLER Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
ALFRED TENNYSON I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were...
ALFRED MOLINA My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands ...
ALFRED JODL Major markets are a key factor in advertise and budgeting decisions.
ALFRED AMOROSO Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
ALFRED JARRY Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to...
ALFRED POLGAR It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster...
ALFRED JARRY It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back...
ALFRED TORRIE The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse whil...
ALFRED BUNN The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
ALFRED SHEINWOLD Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON ... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic)...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
ALFRED TENNYSON If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
ALFRED JARRY It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up ...
ALFRED JARRY Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people s...
ALFRED TENNYSON Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK