Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Charles Dickens

All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble... A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.

Thomas Carlyle

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Dejan Stojanovic

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Pierre Corneille

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

Edvard Munch

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Terry Pratchett

Then the enchantment became more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and silver was flowing over him, too multitudinous for its pattern to be comprehended; it became part of the throbbing air about him, and it drenched and drowned him. Swiftly he sank under its shining weight into a deep realm of sleep.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship

That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those very same people come into your study and tell you the most remarkable things. There's a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much loneliness, where you wouldn't really expect to find it, either.

Marilynne Robinson

I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.

Melanie Chisholm

How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire!

Blaise Pascal

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

Corin Nemec

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

Marlene Dietrich