is not the sun that revolves around it, but the earth.
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
Joseph Brodsky
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
Carolyn Heilbrun
I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.
Jeff Lindsay
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
Frank O'Hara
Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
Alexander Pope
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
Sam Mendes
An unused life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.
Kate Clinton
Chins without beards deserve no honor.
Proverb
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
Lawrence Lessig
February 13, 1951. No! I cannot claim that with the end of this notebook, of the notebook, all will be settled, that all will have been done. Perhaps I will have the desire to add to this again. To add something. To add. Perhaps. To add to this again at the last momenthttp://www.adpf.asso.fr/adpf-publi/folio/textes/gide_ang.rtf
Andre Gide, the source for this
Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.
Mohammed