New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

Ethel Barrymore, "The New York P

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Douglas Horton

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.

Lillian Hellman

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.

Newton Lee

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Alfred Hitchcock

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.

Amber Heard

Be good, or be good at it.

Lil Wayne

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

Kurt Vonnegut