For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.

Tammin Sursok

how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was anotherappleto slice into pieces.Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it's noon,that meanswe're inconsolable.Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.These our bodies, possessed by light.Tell me we'll never get used to it.

Richard Siken

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

Jodi Picoult

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Samuel Johnson

I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it was the perfect fit!

Aly Raisman

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Walter Pater

Even God cannot change the past.

Agathon

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Jean-Paul Sartre

God be prais'd, that to believing souls, Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair

William Shakespeare

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

Steve Maraboli

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

Sergei Bubka