I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.

Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead, Science

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.

Bioleau

At the door of life, by the gate of breath,There are worse things waiting for men than death.

A.C. Swinburne The Triumph Of Ti

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

David Bowie

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

Edward George BulwerLytton

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

Puff Daddy

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Jos

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

James Thurber

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

Brian Eno

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

William Wordsworth