We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.

Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

Edgar Allan Poe

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Henry Beston

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Gore Vidal

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

Confucius

May our effort, confidence and concern for others be the altar from which we pray for personal abundance.

Laura Teresa Marquez

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

John Updike

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.

Ambrose Bierce

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

John Drinkwater

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

Eddie Vedder

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

Virginia Woolf

We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.

Eliza Dushku