Critics, you have been so kind, I would not have you think me blind To all the wisdom that you preach; Yet before I strictlier run In straiter lines of chiselled speech, Give me one more hour, just one Hour to hunt the fairy gleam That flutters through this childish dream.

How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.

Cassandra Clare

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Erich Fromm

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

Jerry Only

The Media is an abstraction (because a newspaper is not concrete and only in an abstract sense can be considered an individual), which in association with the passionlessness and reflection of the times creates that abstract phantom, the public, which is the actual leveler. . . . More and more individuals will, because of their indolent bloodlessness, aspire to become nothing, in order to become the public, this abstract whole, which forms in this ridiculous manner: the public comes into existence because all its participants become third parties. This lazy mass, which understands nothing and does nothing, this public gallery seeks some distraction, and soon gives itself over to the idea that everything which someone does, or achieves, has been done to provide the public something to gossip about. . . . The public has a dog for its amusement. That dog is the Media. If there is someone better than the public, someone who distinguishes himself, the public sets the dog on him and all the amusement begins. This biting dog tears up his coat-tails, and takes all sort of vulgar liberties with his leg--until the public bores of it all and calls the dog off. That is how the public levels.

Soren Kierkegaard, The Present A

It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

Robert Macneil

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Edward Albee

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Elmer G. Letterman

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

William Shakespeare

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Johann von Goethe

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

Julie Benz