Am auzit sau am citit c? filoanele de aur au uneori la suprafa?? un înveli? de cuar?, din care e greu s? extragi metalul. Presupun c? ?i inima ta are un asemenea înveli?; în?untru se afl? metalul pre?ios, dar afurisita asta de coaj? nu s-a topit de tot...

Everyone has a past, but that's just it-it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

Nicholas Sparks

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

Ang Lee

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

If ants had a language they would, no doubt, call their anthill an artifact and describe the brick wall in its neighborhood as a object. in fact would be for them all that was not 'ant-made'.

C.S. Lewis

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

David Rockefeller

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lennon was somebody who was a born enemy of those who govern the United States. He was everything they hated. So I just say that he represented life, and is admirable; and Mr. Nixon and Mr. Bush represent death, and that is a bad thing.

Gore Vidal

So we built the wall and the whole wall was joined together to half its height; for the people had a mind to work. Nehemiah 4:6

Bible

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

Hans Hofmann

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

Stephen King

a life without investigation is not worth living

Plato

Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.

Charles A. Reich