The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

Edmund Burke

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

Alex Kapranos

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Calvin Coolidge

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Alexander Pope

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

Rita Dove

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

David Lee Roth

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.

Amin Maalouf

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

Neil Gaiman

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

Marilyn Ferguson

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

John Berger

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

Stanley Kubrick