If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

Oliver Cromwell

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

John Travolta

I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.

L'Wren Scott

Design is everything. Everything!

Paul Rand

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

William Bennett

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

Ice Cube

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundredth with a beauty.

Pearl Buck, The Good Earth, Chap

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

Tama Janowitz

France has sincerely wished peace, and their seducers have wished war, as well for the loaves and fishes which arise out of war expenses, as for the chance of changing the Constitution

Thomas Jefferson

When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and the memory fades.Not all dreams are significant or worth remembering.But the ones that are . . . happen again.So, wait for the dream to return. And never be afraid. Instead, consider it an opportunity to learn something profound and possibly wondrous about yourself.

Vera Nazarian

The man who appeals to the best side of his fellows is rarely disappointed.

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