Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

Harry von Zell

Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm. I would just like to be more like Troy, because he's so cool.

Zac Efron

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.

Mary J. Blige

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

Dick Schaap

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Professor Blackie

Everything's about company. A gourmet meal with an a-----e is a horrible meal.

Chris Rock

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

Blaise Pascal

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Virginia Satir

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Henry David Thoreau

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

Zadie Smith