Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
BOTTOMThere are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladiescannot abide. How answer you that?SNOUTBy'r lakin, a parlous fear.STARVELINGI believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done.BOTTOMNot a whit: I have a device to make all well.Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem tosay, we will do no harm with our swords, and thatPyramus is not killed indeed; and, for the morebetter assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am notPyramus, but Bottom the weaver: this will put themout of fear.QUINCEWell, we will have such a prologue; and it shall bewritten in eight and six.BOTTOMNo, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight.
William Shakespeare
Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.
Denis Leary
It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures.
Virginia Woolf
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Jacques Chirac
You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.
Jimi Hendrix
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
Aldo Leopold
Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.
Charles Dickens
I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.
Cassandra Clare
Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
Samuel Johnson
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
John Dryden
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
Mark Twain
Afore me! It is so very late,That we may call it early by and by.
In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.
Christopher Hitchens
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
Laura Marling
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
Eddie Izzard
Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
Mel Gibson
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple...
J.K. Rowling
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
Ulysses S. Grant
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues....
George Orwell
Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
Damien Hirst
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
Jane Austen
I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.
Jo Durie
This I know - that I know nothing.
Plato
Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
Joan Rivers
I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
Walter Scott
There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.
Carrie Fisher
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
Albert Einstein
In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.
Keith Thibodeaux
We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid it our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
Robert Toombs
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
Jodi Picoult
As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.
Bill Williams
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
Abraham Lincoln
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.
Gary Ross
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
Carter G. Woodson
True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny democracy, not dictatorship the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Tony Blair
If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
George Bernard Shaw
I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
Christina Aguilera
The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre things really happen
Bertrand Russell
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