The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Blaise Pascal

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

Hakeem Olajuwon

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.

Ellie Goulding

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Vincent Van Gogh

IF her life had taught her anything, it was that you never really knew what people had going on beneath the surface. People were shit. The only difference between them and animals was people felt the need to hide it.

Stacia Kane

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

Robert Casey

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

Jose Marti

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West

All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

Kate Mara

Man may be defined as the animal that can say I, that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

Erich Fromm

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Charles Montesquieu

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

Zosia Mamet