I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Through the parted curtains of the window I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her. The sky is a hard hollow sapphire. Let us go out into the night. Thought is wonderful, but adventure is more wonderful still. Who knows but we may meet Prince Florizel of Bohemia, and hear the fair Cuban tell us that she is not what she seems?

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

Lauryn Hill

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

Fareed Zakaria

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Margaret Mitchell

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Rumi

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Sallust

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Orson Scott Card

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Elinor Wylie

My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.

Cormac McCarthy

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Royal Little

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

Oscar Wilde

The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.

Michael Winner