Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
William Butler Yeats
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
Walter Pater
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.
Neil Gaiman
Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.
Joaquin Phoenix
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
Orson Scott Card
I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
Chief Joseph
You change your life by changing your heart.
Max Lucado
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar
Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.
Paulo Coelho
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.
Mark Warner
Wasn't that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
Abraham Lincoln
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.
Cameron Crowe
Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut -- a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
Anzia Yezierska
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
George Eliot
A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.
Steve Maraboli
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Brigham Young
You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.
Michael J. Fox
The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.
I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.
Todd Barry
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
Aristotle
It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.
Uma Thurman
Love the giver more than the gift.
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan Poe
We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.
Kurt Vonnegut
Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.
David Axelrod
He is bound to you, said the Queen. But does he love you?
Cassandra Clare
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first then implement to the interface design.
Jef Raskin
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
Baltasar Gracian
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