Art like life should be free, since both are experimental.

. . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, splintered surgances . . . . Is this not form?

Giacomo Puccini, from Talks with

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

Samuel Johnson

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.

Todd Akin

Where others see complexity, the person of action sees the thing that needs to be done.

Michael Lipsey

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Marcel Proust

All truths can be changed! Put this brave idea to the centre of your beliefs! All truths can be changed!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

George Eliot

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

Heath Ledger

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

Rutherford B. Hayes

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

George Orwell

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Wallace Stevens