I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

Bruce Dickinson

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Bernardo Bertolucci

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

Susie Bright

One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly disco

Albert Einstein

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne, Meditation XVII from

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.

Bible

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Thomas Fuller

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

J. G. Gallimore

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.

Jean Vanier

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

Bryant McGill

I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are one.

Miranda July