Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

Fernand Leger

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

George Bernard Shaw

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

Jeremy Renner

He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the darkness by the visible splendors of the constellations, and the invisible splendor of God, opening his soul to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. In such moments, offering up his heart at the hour when the flowers of night inhale their perfume, lighted like a lamp in the center of the starry night, expanding his soul in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of creation, he could not himself perhaps have told what was passing in his own mind; he felt something depart from him, and something descend upon him, mysterious interchanges of the depths of the soul with the depths of the universe.

Victor Hugo

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.

Manal al-Sharif

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

Jimmy Wales

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

Henry Rollins

In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.

Walter Savage Landor

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Henry Ward Beecher

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.

Maya Angelou

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

Jane Fonda