There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

John Wooden

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Peace Pilgrim

I love talking about Scientology.

Giovanni Ribisi

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

Washington Irving

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

Lou Thesz

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Ronald Reagan

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Theodore Roosevelt

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

Northrop Frye

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Margaret Cho

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

Buckminster Fuller

Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.

William Cowper

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

Louis Farrakhan