All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Steven Wright

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

Susan Orlean

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Norman MacCaig

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

Eugene H. Peterson

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Karl Marx

You have had a dream for so many years. Let today be the day you make a plan for it. Just think about how much more likely you are to hit your target when you finally aim at it.

Steve Maraboli

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!

Henry Wotton

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.

Leonard Brandwein

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him he was funny.

Joe Grant

Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?

Anna Sui

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Ingmar Bergman