As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Composing is my life blood.

Morton Gould

Silence implies consent.

Proverb

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

Trisha Yearwood

If you think training is hard...try losing.

Davee Jones

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

George Jean Nathan

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The American empire is hovering between life and death.

Mohsen Rezaee

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

Jane Campion

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

Andy Serkis

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

All that the hand of man can uprear, is either overturned by the hand of man, or at length by standing and continuing consumed: as if there were a secret opposition in Fate (the unevitable decree of the Eternal) to control our industry, and countercheck all our devices and proposing. Possessions are not enduring, children lose their names. . . .

William Drummond

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Lord Acton