Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Democritus

There are only two ways to get a new customer: 1. solicit a new customer any way you can. 2. Take good care of your present customers, so they don't become someone else's new customers.

Ed Zeitz

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry --That is a life.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

Virginia Woolf

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame to copy faults is want of sense.

Charles Churchill

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.

Michel Hazanavicius

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Midge Decter

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Victor Hugo

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Benjamin Franklin

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment success doesn't make it easy.

Enya

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

Josephine Baker

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow