Skip to main content

Posts

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return.

Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. Percy Bysshe Shelley The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. Zora Neale Hurston In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees. Casper Van Dien Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. Rebecca West An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Oscar Wilde Nothing has been given to me. Freddy Adu
Read more

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that

the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. Gloria Steinem The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in. Dennis Potter Reports of a hurricane are unfounded. Michael Fish Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. H. L. Mencken When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate. Robert Crumb You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. Hermann Weyl Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. Og Mandino
Read more

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always

criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. Saint Teresa of Avila To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich. Muhammad Ali For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. William H. Gass I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. Zsa Zsa Gabor What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. Thomas Carlyle Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. Jack Lemmon One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist. Andres Serrano
Read more

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a

letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication. Kevin J. Anderson There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. Michel de Montaigne I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night. William Kidd One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. Carl Sandburg I only make movies to finance my fishing. Lee Marvin Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. Antoine Rivarol People demand freedom only when they have no power. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Read more

There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because

of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act. Cuba Gooding, Jr. Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. Michel de Montaigne You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens. Tanya Tucker In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. David Blaine Nothing is easy to the unwilling. Thomas Fuller To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates. Arnold Schwarzenegger We may be personally defeated, but our principles never! William Lloyd Garrison
Read more

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle

decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead! George S. Patton The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. Harper Lee For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover. Edwin Arlington Robinson It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment. Giordano Bruno We were wavering around like a ship without a sail. Judy Holliday I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment. Ayumi Hamasaki I've been around doing a little of this and a little of that. Joseph Force Crater
Read more

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I

felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked. Lee Child God himself has no right to be a tyrant. William Godwin Governments never learn. Only people learn. Milton Friedman The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. George Bernard Shaw Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own. Omar Bongo Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind. Elizabeth Moon Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Read more

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on

the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell! Thomas Fuller My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. Olivier Messiaen I still have horrible luck with girls. Jonathan Bennett In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. Mark Twain One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. Evelyn Waugh The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. Douglas Adams
Read more

Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn

and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique. Jeb Bush The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well. Junichiro Koizumi Mankind is made great or little by its own will. Friedrich Schiller Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. Victor Hugo Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. William Congreve Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation. Linda Lingle It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s. Frankie Avalon
Read more

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can

unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys. Marvin Gaye I model irregular clothing. Jay London I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio. Nina Blackwood Necessity dispenseth with decorum. Thomas Carlyle There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. David Letterman Impulses are hard to come by these days. Jack Levine Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes. George Will
Read more

When I was a kid it was like, who could be the coolest? Who could

do the stupidest thing? And you knew it was a stupid thing to do, but you would do it just so you could be the coolest guy. And then you end up doing really cruel crap. Mike Judge Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. R. Buckminster Fuller I don't have a great nostalgia for the past. Andy Summers It is going to be changed to straight P. Diddy. You could call me P. or Diddy, or P. Diddy. I just want something fresh, man. Sean Combs The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money. Norman Ralph Augustine Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand. Donna Tartt Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Read more

The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music

is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. Beth Gibbons I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it. Kenneth L. Pike War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. Ron Paul My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. Dylan Thomas For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. Alfred Hitchcock A cat is never vulgar. Carl Van Vechten First thoughts are not always the best. Vittorio Alfieri
Read more

I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a

good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't. Viggo Mortensen Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion. Bill Condon Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him? Brigham Young Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of. Roger Mudd I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. Stephen Leacock How is an error possible in mathematics? Henri Poincare We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts? Mahatma Gandhi
Read more

In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a

result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq. Peter T. King I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids. Robert Lansing If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each. Princess Diana 30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me. Gig Young A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective. Russell M. Nelson If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last. Naguib Mahfouz There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history. Frank B. Kellogg
Read more

We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull

the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it. Phil Condit You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. James Baker I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Shelley I always liked the smell of a smoke-filled room. I think it's a good smell. Dennis Franz If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find. John Churton Collins The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life. Benjamin Bratt We must see our present fight right through to the very end. Bobby Sands
Read more

Gemeoss

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts

me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen Keller For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. Kim Campbell Nature makes woman to be won and men to win. George William Curtis I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction. Frederik Pohl Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. Laurie Anderson
Read more

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than

they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters. Alice Hamilton What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? Jackie Kennedy In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. Charles Baudelaire In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. George Canning Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost. Evelyn Waugh Life is ten percent what happens to yo...
Read more

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and

still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for. Christopher Dawson Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play? Tom Lehrer This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. Hannah Arendt I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties. Princess Diana Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach
Read more

If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for

every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again. Charles Kelley It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities. David Chipperfield My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears. Yelawolf Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so. Rob Sheffield To survive, the GOP needs to invite people in, not shut them out. Eliot Spitzer 7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time. Obie Trice ...
Read more

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install

it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines. Nat Friedman Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. William Blake Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity. Jane Rule We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. Tryon Edwards Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read more

The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans

- from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted. David Douglas Duncan Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation that Silicon Valley has yet to see. Mitch Kapor I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird. Henry Rollins They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink. Tom DeLonge My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine. Sam Taylor-Johnson The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music. Kelli O'Hara I try to have the motto of living life with no regrets. Matt Flynn I general don't color my stuff - I'm pretty horrible with co...
Read more

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and

adapt with the times. John Prendergast The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s. John Lewis Gaddis People say, 'Oh, God, how devastating to go through a divorce.' Did I wish for this to happen to my family? No. But everyone is healthy; we're moving on with our lives. Heidi Klum Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy. Martin Freeman Becoming a parent expands you as a human being. I am having the most wonderful time. You've married, but the addition of a child strengthens and deepens everything. Kyle MacLachlan When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life. Gail Sheehy The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena. Lee Daniels I'm a good eater and like...
Read more

The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me -

in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this. Sally Mann Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness. Erykah Badu I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way. Steven Rodney McQueen Tapas is a celebration of life. Jose Andres Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about. Peter Benchley It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn't miserable, and it wasn't poverty stricken. It felt very safe, full of delights. Peter Capaldi The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much a...
Read more

I don't know the accident of still being married. I was the worst human being.

But we were, I guess, in love. So much has happened to us to bring us together and keep us together. Shelley Berman My first time overseas was taking 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam. John F. Kelly In the beginning, I was riddled with major complexes about my looks. Even now, here and there, these complexes crop up. But as the days progressed, I learnt to handle them much better. Dhanush A lot of times, I don't want to listen to my stuff, because I'm thinking maybe I didn't do my best. Darius Rucker I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different. Gary Lineker I was never drawn just into fashion. I was drawn into it because I am really interested in serving women and providing women with solutions, trying to figure out what we need and why we need that and why we wear stuff, how it makes us feel. That was al...
Read more

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be

challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot. Evander Holyfield Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover. Giotto di Bondone It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be. Vincent Canby Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. John Archibald Wheeler I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. Abraham Lincoln
Read more