Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness.

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.

Robert Mapplethorpe

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Ernest Hemingway

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Thomas Carlyle

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Peter Kreeft

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

E. M. Forster

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

Iggy Pop

Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

Ozzy Osbourne

Morgan has the artist's mind; he says the simple things that clever people don't say; I find him the best of critics for that reason. Suddenly out comes the obvious thing that one has overlooked.

Virginia Woolf

They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.

Paulo Coelho

The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress.

Steve Maraboli

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

Arne Duncan

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler