If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Walt Whitman

Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

Virginia Woolf

Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.

Claud Cockburn

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

J.K. Rowling

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

Lawrence Kasdan

The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

Bruce Dern

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

Georg Solti

The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.

ChingAn

Science is organized knowledge.

Herbert Spencer

A sure way of getting the last word in an argument is to say you right.

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Barry Cornwall

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported whatthe rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong generalresemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

Charles Dickens