The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

Aaliyah

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Virginia Woolf

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

Glen Hansard

I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

Kathie Lee Gifford

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'

John Greenleaf Whittier, "Maud M

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

Rickie Lee Jones

God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

Albert Camus

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

Al Sharpman

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Johann von Goethe

The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

James Baldwin

If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.

U. G. Krishnamurti