Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

Ridley Scott

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

Mahatma Gandhi

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Hal Borland

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Diogenes Laërtius

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Edward Gibbon

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

April Winchell

The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

Harold Sherman

The real war will never get in the books.

Walt Whitman

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

Douglas Wilson

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

Madeline Miller

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.

Murray Gell-Mann

If you have it Love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

James Barrie