The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

A.E. Housman

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

George Orwell

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.

Lisa Loeb

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest--whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories--comes afterward. These are games; one must first answer.

Albert Camus

If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

Jan Mckeithen

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.

John Huston

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Andrew Sullivan

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

Steven Wright

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Theophile Gautier

Students are extraordinary teachers. They speak. They constantly tell us how our expectations, objectives, curriculums, and instructional strategies affect them. We need to look to our students to tell us why learning takes place

Anthony Gregorc, Interview (1998

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

Jack Lemmon

A broken heart bleeds tears.

Steve Maraboli