Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

Amy Grant

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

John Green

That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

Rachel True

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

American Indian Proverb, Cheroke

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

Herbie Hancock

How many truths pass wrecking through the Illusion of Life, but none of them is an absolute truth therefore the real truth!

Sorin Cerin

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.

James Cameron

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

Jodi Picoult

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Frank Herbert

They knew, though, she would not suffer as they had suffered. She was perfect. They were scarred.

Francesca Lia Block

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Ogden Nash

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson