Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
John Milton
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.
James Hillman
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.
Ethan Hawke
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.
David Steinberg
Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.
Thomas Mann
Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?
Jay-Z
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo Buscaglia
What is uttered is finished and done with.
Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.
I cast unusual people in my movies.
Albert Brooks
Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.
Robin Cousins
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel
Well, I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home, the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast.
Jenny Eclair
Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.
Adam Sandler
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
Patrick Wilson
If food were free, why work?
Douglas Horton
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Hugo Black
Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
Germaine Greer
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Maria Schell
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
Jonathan Sacks
I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
Paul Simon
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
Natan Sharansky
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
I have to trust what I do and then do it.
Ednita Nazario
I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.
Terry Riley
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Ezra Pound
I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
Nathan Fillion
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.
Jon Meacham
In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.
William Dampier
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