The features of character are carved out of adversity.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Aristotle

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Paul Valery

Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.

Jean Baudrillard

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics

Kurt Vonnegut

That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.

Kid Rock

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Boris Pasternak

To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!

Dabney Coleman

Using your mind is a faster method to getting what you want. I mean, all you have to do is sit there. What could be easier?

Stephen Richards

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

Barbara Taylor Bradford