Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Margot Fonteyn, Margot Fonteyn:
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Margot Fonteyn, The Magic of Dan
I just did a part in 'Sin City 2.' I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man, extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me... I'm so excited about that I think it's gonna be very cool.
Juno Temple
Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
Margot Fonteyn
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?
Neil Gaiman
Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation a new meaning, no matter how frightening or difficult. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.
Og Mandino
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of Information can drive our Knowledge.on computarization of libraries
Daniel J. Boorstin, "New York Ti
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
Anais Nin
A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.
Michel de Montaigne, Essais
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
Quintilian
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
Charles Horton Cooley
Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
Henry David Thoreau
Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
Loretta Lynn
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen
Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.
Jenny McCarthy
The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
Benjamin Franklin
In 1965, I marched for equality.
Alphonso Jackson
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Stanislaw Lem
There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.
Jerry Nachman
All art is immoral.
Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
George Bernard Shaw
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
Kevyn Aucoin
People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.'
Lee Westwood
I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.
Leona Lewis
I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.
What's past is prologue.
William Shakespeare
Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.
Helena Bonham Carter
People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.
Jesse Jackson
There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.
Margot Kidder
The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
Gloria Swanson
It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.
The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure
Aristotle
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.
Jonathan Edwards
The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion
Samuel Johnson
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