I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Samuel Butler

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

Justin Timberlake

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Dag Hammarskjold

I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.

Mike Mills

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same the wellspring is the same in both cases.

J. Michael Straczynski

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

Al Goldstein

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Michael Morpurgo

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American No

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.

Jacob Getlar Smith

For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.

Jello Biafra

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

Frank Dane