Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China.

Nigel Lawson

WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

George Orwell

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.

Jerome Wiesner

In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).

Barbara Kingsolver

I haven't got a lot of patience.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

George Eliot

I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

George Orwell

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!

Terry Pratchett

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness

Charles Dickens

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch