The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

Rick Perry

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

Oscar Wilde

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

Oscar Wilde

Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

Source Unknown

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Leo Tolstoy

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

C.S. Lewis

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

Benjamin Franklin

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

Ray Charles

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Ken Keyes Jr.

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

Camille Anna Paglia