Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Jean Baudrillard

I love insects. They are amazing.

Andrea Arnold

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

Samuel Johnson

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

Tom Lantos

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Gita Bellin

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Jonathan Demme

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained

C.S. Lewis

The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.

Joyce Meyer

Somehow difficulties are easier to endure when you know your dream is waiting for you at the end.

Lisa Mangum

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

Walter Lippmann

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

Cynthia McKinney