I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.
As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.
Kahlil Gibran
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
Charles Peguy
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
Sun Tzu
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.
John Leeson
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
André Gide
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
Bertolt Brecht
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
Neil Gaiman
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
Alexander McQueen
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
Adrienne Rich
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That's like...having rock-star problems.''Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.
Cassandra Clare
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
Tyra Banks
No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.
John Green
If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.
Steven Patrick Morrissey
Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you? We say so, because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it. It is not you, but your radiance. It is that which you know not in yourself, and can never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.
Joseph Addison
Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Terry Pratchett
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
Steven Wright
I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.
Charlie Kaufman
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
This console here was the best part of my life. And I spent almost 10 years at this console. It is my life, it will always be my life. And I will never leave it behind.
Gene Kranz
Media, the plural of mediocrity.
Jimmy Breslin
There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.
Dave Rowntree
All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.
What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
Kurt Vonnegut
Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.
David Brinkley
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
Jerry Saltz
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