My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

E. M. Forster, "repr. In Abinger

An executive is a man who decides; sometimes he decides right, but always he decides.

John H. Patterson

I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

Tatjana Patitz

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

John Drinkwater

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Cynthia Rowley

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.

Carl Gustav Jung

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

Sarah Palin

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews.

Jodi Picoult

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

Paul Ryan

There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.

Thomas L. Masson

Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.

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