You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

Virginia Woolf

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Luis Bunuel

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.

Lydia Maria Child

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

Jonathan Winters

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar -- that I call an achievement.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Prince Charles

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.

Kesha

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Mary Jo Putney

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus

He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

How to Draw a Picture (XII)Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

Stephen King