Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

Manolo Blahnik

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

Sheryl Sandberg

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

On the contrary, art consists of inventing and not copying. The Italian Renaissance is a period of artistic decadence. Those men, devoid of their predecessors' inventiveness, thought they were stronger as imitators-that is false. Art must be free in its inventiveness, it must raise us above too much reality. This is its goal, whether it is poetry or painting. The plastic life, the picture, is made up of harmonious relationships among volumes, lines, and colors. These are the three forces that must govern works of art. If, in organizing these three essential elements harmoniously, one finds that objects, elements of reality, can enter into the composition, it may be better and may give the work more richness. But they must be subordinated to the three essential elements mentioned above. Modern work thus takes a point of view directly opposed to academic work. Academic work puts the subject first and relegates pictorial values to a secondary level, if there is room.For us others, it is the opposite. Every canvas, even if nonrepresentational, that depends on harmonious relationships of the three forces-color, volume, and line-is a work of art. I repeat, if the object can be included without shattering the governing structure, the canvas is enriched.Sometimes these relationships are merely decorative when they are abstract. But if objects figure in the composition-free objects with a genuine plastic value-pictures result that have as much variety and profundity as any with an imitative subject.

Fernand Leger

This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate the time to get sweaty, to get dirty, to fall in love, to forgive, to forget, to hug, to kiss this is the time to experience, participate and live your life as a verb.

Steve Maraboli

People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important.

Kirsty Coventry

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

B. C. Forbes

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

Theresa May

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

Daniel H. Wilson

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

Andy Serkis

I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.

Zoe Kazan