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“Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.”
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“There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.”
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“A journey is measured in friends, not miles.”
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“You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.”
Source : "They Never Said it: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by Paul F. Boller and John H. George, 1990.
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“This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.”
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“Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.”
Source : J. Frank Dobie (2010). “Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest”, p.7, University of Texas Press
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“The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.”
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“I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.”
Source : "Frank Lampard eager to lead Chelsea over Champions League final hurdle". Interview with Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.