Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

[W]enn ihr nicht mit Liebe, sondern nur mit Widerwillen arbeiten könnt, lasst besser eure Arbeit [...] und nehmt Almosen von denen, die mit Freude arbeiten.

Kahlil Gibran

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Publilius Syrus

God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?

Ben Carson

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

Oscar Wilde

It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost.

Sela Ward

I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board. You'd think about what kind of food you want, and the table would move across the floor to it.

Steven Wright

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Joseph Joubert

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

David Hume

Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God

Voltaire

No one should be left to suffer alone.

Daisaku Ikeda

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

Marta Kristen