Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Georges Duhamel

The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

Vera Farmiga

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Anthony Kiedis

From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.

Barbara Olson

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the burning marl. Old wives' tales!There's no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS--OTHER PEOPLE!(spoken by character Garcin) http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/hell/sart.html

JeanPaul Sartre, No Exit, 1945

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

Patrick Swayze

And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything.

Umberto Eco, The Island of the D

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

Camille Paglia

Good wine needs no bush

William Shakespeare

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

William Faulkner

Technology makes the world a new place.

Shoshana Zuboff