People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

Robert Lynd

When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there.

Laurieann Gibson

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies

Mark Twain

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

Nicholas Negroponte

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

Norman Douglas

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most will regret opening up the doors to truth, while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end, does impracticality defeat curiosity?

Lionel Suggs

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.

Billy Sunday

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Harvey Fierstein

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

We need no science of formulae, but a science of forms.

Viktor Schauberger

I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.

Virgil