Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, I am suffering, than to say, This landscape is ugly.

Simone Weil

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Cesare Pavese

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

Israel Zangwill

A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.

American Indian Proverb, Sioux

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

Caroline Wozniacki

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

John Steinbeck

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

Quentin Tarantino

The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Thomas Carlyle

They say...Love thy neighbor as thy self... What am I supposed to do? Jerk him off too?

Rodney Dangerfield

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Igor Stravinsky

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

Joyce Meyer

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Andrew Weil