Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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One insult pocketed soon produces another

Thomas Jefferson

The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.

Ben Herbster

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

Ray Bradbury

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Albert Pike

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

Catherine Deneuve

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Akira Kurosawa

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

John Shimkus

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Oscar Niemeyer

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Sir Winston Churchill