People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

David Harold Fink

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Pa

The incipient institution needs some stabilizing principle to stop its premature demise. That stabilizing principle is the naturalization of social classifications. There needs to be an analogy by which the formal structure of a crucial set of social relations is found in the physical world, or in the supernatural world, or in eternity, anywhere, so long as it is not seen as a socially contrived arrangement. When the analogy is applied back and forth from one set of social relations to another, and from these back to nature, its recurring formal structure becomes easily recognized and endowed with self-validating truth... For discourse to be possible at all, the basic categories have to be agreed on. Nothing else but institutions can define sameness. Similarity is an institution.

Mary Douglas

I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.

James McAvoy

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

Jim Henson

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

Stanislav Grof

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Stephen Hawking

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

Hjalmar Schacht

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

Chinua Achebe

If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the U.S., realize they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value.

Kim Stanley Robinson

We cannot endure being despised, or not being esteemed by any soul; and all the happiness of men consists in this esteem.

Blaise Pascal