The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. On Lohengrin

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.

Saul Williams

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.

Michael Harrington

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

George Bernard Shaw

Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the tribe will desert us to die a sad, lonely death.

Stephen Richards

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

Samuel Butler

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Tom Hopkins

Dahulu dia selalu katakan apa yang dia pikirkan, tangiskan, apa yang ditanggungkan, teriakan ria kesukaan di dalam hati remaja. Kini dia harus diam- tak ada kuping sudi suaranya.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

Gena Showalter

I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.

Derek Luke

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

Wim Wenders

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

Dorothy L. Sayers