No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Mayakovsky has an essay called How to Write Poems where he says that a poet must spend time and effort choosing the uniquely appropriate words, force them into the rhythm of the poem and then test it out loud ten times or more. Vertov did something very similar at the editing table. A hundred tests, a thousand different variants, endless numbers of try-outs--for meaning, for imagery, for rhythm--and finally, after long intensive efforts, that feeling of joy: it works. . .

Elizaveta Svilova

The good old times -- all times when old are good.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Martin E. P. Seligman

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

George Bernard Shaw

I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

Albert Einstein

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

John Green

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

Mason Cooley

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

Frances Burney

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

Neil Gaiman

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

R. D. Lang