We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

Benjamin Franklin

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

Allison Janney

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

Orison Swett Marden

People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.

Henry Morgan

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

Jane Austen

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

Jose Marti

Our sufferings will give us strength to help create a brave new world without needless sufferings.

Peter Lopez

The stage is a concrete physical place which asks to be filled, and to be given its own concrete language to speak. I say that this concrete language, intended for the senses and independent of speech, has first to satisfy the senses, that there is a poetry of the senses as there is a poetry of language, and that this concrete physical language to which I refer is truly theatrical only to the degree that the thoughts it expresses are beyond the reach of the spoken language. These thoughts are what words cannot express and which, far more than words, would find their ideal expression in the concrete physical language of the stage. It consists of everything that occupies the stage, everything that can be manifested and expressed materially on a stage and that is addressed first of all to the senses instead of being addressed primarily to the mind as is the language of words...creating beneath language a subterranean current of impressions, correspondences, and analogies. This poetry of language, poetry in space will be resolved precisely in the domain which does not belong strictly to words...Means of expression utilizable on the stage, such as music, dance, plastic art, pantomime, mimicry, gesticulation, intonation, architecture, lighting, and scenery...The physical possibilities of the stage offers, in order to substitute, for fixed forms of art, living and intimidating forms by which the sense of old ceremonial magic can find a new reality in the theater; to the degree that they yield to what might be called the physical temptation of the stage. Each of these means has its own intrinsic poetry.

Antonin Artaud, The Theater And

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

Charlie Haden

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

Henry David Thoreau

On vanity: The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

Blaise Pascal