Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. For history's sake we shouldn't keep him there.

Ernest Hemingway

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

Kent McCord

We are trying to persuade people that no human has yet grasped 1% of what can be known about spiritual realities. So we are encouraging people to start using the same methods of science that have been so productive in other areas, in order to discover spiritual realities.

John Templeton

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Joseph Brodsky

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

Aristotle

Thoughts are forces.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

Audre Lorde

The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.

Junior Seau

I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.

Jean Dujardin

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

Hedy Lamarr

You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King