The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.)

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

Marilyn Monroe

You seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time.

Orson Scott Card

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Georges Bernanos

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

G. K. Chesterton

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

Neil Kinnock

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

Orson Scott Card

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

Oskar Schindler

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Benjamin Disraeli

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

Jennie Garth

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

Joy Page

Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

William Shakespeare

In oratory the will must predominate.

David Hare