Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.

Blake Lively

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

Richard Hell

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.

Victor Hugo

When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

Frances O'Grady

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

Wallace Stevens

But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

Carly Fiorina

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Simone Weil

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

Katy Perry

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

James Gleick

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

Vanessa Carlton

It's well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced.

Anne Bronte

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Albert Camus