What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

Devon Sawa

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Benjamin Disraeli

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

Jodi Picoult

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Barbara Ehrenreich

People do not make wars; governments do.

Ronald Reagan

If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.

Edward Gardner

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e. e. cummings

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said:

Halford E. Luccock

Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

H. L. Mencken

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

William Shakespeare

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Robert H. Schuller