Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

John W. Gardner

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Lewis Mumford

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

Victoria Woodhull

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

They are all so-called Christian nations, but... this superimposed religion... does not penetrate into the core of their souls. It has no relation to their daily experience... It is a key to open a heaven after death and not a key with which to force open the portals of this life.

Isaac Leib Peretz

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

William Shakespeare

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Daniel H. Wilson

The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her bosom.

Charles Dickens

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

Wayne Coyne

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Keanu Reeves

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

Paul Prudhomme