Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

Arthur Eddington

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

Gerard De Nerval

Hey, A-D-D, she called out to Claire, come over and try these on.

Kimberly Derting

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

Samuel Johnson

Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

Lord Chesterfield

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

Michael Caine

To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.

Stephen Chow

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

Jane Austen

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

Alfred Korzybski

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.

Bernadette Peters

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Ishmael Reed