Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

Jeannette Rankin

The slogan Stop climate change is a very public advertisement of absolute total ignorance as it is not cognisant of history, archaeology, geology, astronomy, ocean sciences, atmospheric sciences and the life sciences.

Ian Plimer

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Eric Hoffer

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Socrates

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

Paul De Man

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

Olivier Martinez

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Allen Klein

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

Christian Slater

Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.

Michael Zaslow

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

Henry Miller

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

William Shakespeare

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

Wm. Paul Young