The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned

George Bernard Shaw

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

Spike Lee

For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

Tory Burch

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects.

Bill Sienkiewicz

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Alexander Pope

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be?,

Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

John Updike

Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.

Stanley Horowitz

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

Source Unknown

Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?

Emeril Lagasse

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Jos

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it

Bertrand Russell