For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.

Proverb

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

Jean de la Bruyere

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.

Dave Chappelle

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

W. Somerset Maugham

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.

Sophia Bush

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Raoul Vaneigem

I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.

Josh Duhamel

Voice-acting, on the fun meter, is off the scale. You show up, you don't have to be all primped up, or dressed up. And you get to work with some amazing people, and goof off for four hours.

Jason Marsden

I love going out and doing new things.

Bo Jackson

Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May -- how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

George Robert Gissing