The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

Paul Thomas Anderson

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

John Ruskin

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

General Douglas MacArthur

As we turn through the pages of the press and the periodicals, as we catch the flash of billboards along the railroads and the highways, all of which have become enormous vehicles of the advertising art, I doubt if we realize at all the impressive part that these displays are coming more and more to play in modern life... We see that basically it is that of education...It makes new thoughts, new desires, new actions...Rightfully applied, it is the method by which desire is created for better things. Desire, in turn, is the crucial element separating the civilized from the uncivilized. The uncivilized make little progress because they have few desires. The inhabitants of our country are stimulated to new wants in all directions. In order to satisfy their constantly increasing desires, they necessarily expand their productive powers. They create more wealth because it is only by that method that they can satisfy their wants. It is this constantly enlarging circle that represents the increasing circle of civilization.

Calvin Coolidge, quoted in Frank

People must help one another it is nature's law.

Jean de La Fontaine

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Hunter S. Thompson

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

Loretta Lynn

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

Emma Goldman

In the small circle of pain within the skullYou still shall tramp and tread one endless roundOf thought, to justify your action to yourselves,Weaving a fiction which unravels as you weave,Pacing forever in the hell of make-believeWhich never is belief: this is your fate on earthAnd we must think no further of you.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, Murde

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

Karl Lagerfeld