The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

Patrick J. Kennedy

The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Augustus Hare

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

The term bail-out is deceptive. They have people come up with euphenisms to hide reality

James Dye

What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,

James Russell Lowell

I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.

Kristen Bell

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Robert Wyatt

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

Walter Benjamin

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

John McCain

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

Edie Brickell

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.

John Dryden