My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.

Ai Weiwei

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I do like the world quite a lot.

Shannon Hale

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

Ron Livingston

Music has often been compared with language itself, and the comparison is quite legitimate. While it combines easily with actual language, it also speaks a language of its own, which it has become a platitude to call universal. To understand the significance of the organizing factors of rhythm, melody, harmony, tone color and form, the analogy of a familiar language is helpful. Music has its own alphabet of only seven letters, as compared with the twenty-six of the English alphabet. Each of these letters represents a note, and just as certain letters are complete words in themselves, so certain notes may stand alone, with the force of a whole word. Generally, however, a note of music implies a certain harmony, and in most modern music the notes take the form of actual chords. So it may be said that a chord in music is analogous to a word in language. Several words form a phrase, and several phrases a complete sentence, and the same thing is true in music. Measured music corresponds to poetry, while the old unmeasured plain-song might be compared with prose.

Sigmund Spaeth, The Art of Enjoy

I believe it is peace in our time.

Neville Chamberlain

I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life. Les Jeux.

Anais Nin, The Diary of Ana, 198

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Nelson Mandela

Don't ever brag about the funds(money) of your parents because they might leave wuth it when their time comes instead strive to make yours and have your personal bragging rights

Chuka Osa-Afiana

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

George Bernard Shaw

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

Jane Howard