Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.

Stanley Kubrick

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Walter Savage Landor

A winded, defeated-looking fat woman in filthy coveralls trudged beside us, hearing what Miss Pefko said. She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

Kurt Vonnegut

Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy.

J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds:

Don't be tempted to break momentum—work through it.

Lorii Myers

If the earth were flat one could equally well say that the apple fell on Newton's head beacuse of gravity or that Newton's head hit the apple because he and the surface of the earth were accelerating upward.

Albert Einstein

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Marilyn Monroe

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

John Mellencamp

The more he cast away the more he had.

John Bunyan

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

Morihei Ueshiba

When India was explored and the wonderful riches of Indian theological literature found that dispelled once and for all the dream about Christianity being the sole revelation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson