We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Sophocles

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Natalie Goldberg

Religion is the opium of the people. He believed that, that dyspeptic little joint-keeper. Yes, and music is the opium of the people. Old mount-to-the-head hadn't thought of that. And now economics is the opium of the people; along with patriotism the opium of the people in Italy and Germany. What about sexual intercourse; was that an opium of the people? Of some of the people. Of some of the best of the people. But drink was a sovereign opium of the people, oh, an excellent opium. Although some prefer the radio, another opium of the people, a cheap one he had just been using. Along with these went gambling, an opium of the people if there ever was one, one of the oldest. Ambition was another, an opium of the people along with a belief in any new form of government. What you wanted was the minimum of government, always less government. Liberty, what we believed in, now the name of a MacFadden publication. We believed in that although they had not found a new name for it yet. But what was the real one? What was the real, the actual, opium of the people? He knew it very well. It was gone just a little way around the corner in that well-lighted part of his mind that was there after two or more drinks in the evening; that he knew was there (it was not really there of course). What was it? He knew very well. What was it? Of course; bread was the opium of the people. Would he remember that and would it make sense in the daylight? Bread is the opium of the people.

Ernest Hemingway

Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires.

Roel van Sleeuwen

The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.

Raymond Chandler

If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.

Nena O'Neil

Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.

Edgar F. Roberts

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.

Nick Cannon

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Union Ad

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

Heraclitus

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.

Rosanne Cash

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

Robert Bresson