"It's important to show solidarity for a child, no matter what. It's important for a child to be raised in a situation where she sees love, solidarity, commitment and honor."

“Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.”

“I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.”

“Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This." I said. And then I kissed him.”

“The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.”

“Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.”

Source : "Nixon Press Secretary Ron Ziegler Dead at 63" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2003.

“And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.”

“We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.”

“I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.”

Source : Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”