Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

Bertrand Russell

There are a few ironclad rules of diplomancy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

Joan Jett

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

Joy Page

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Francis Bacon

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

Wallace Stevens

Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.

Kathy Acker

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

Christopher Lasch

You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world.

John Searle

Life is a hot day, perhaps death is a cool night. Life is a shallow bay, perhaps death is a clear, deep sea.

Mika Waltari

...music is the key to life

DMX

It's really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She's an amazing actress, but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don't want that to happen to me.

Dianna Agron