The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Dickens

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of

Northrop Frye

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Gustave Flaubert

I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.

Florence Welch

The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.

Candace Cameron

A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford.

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It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

Thornton Wilder

For me, London is and always will be home.

Clive Owen

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Blaise Pascal

She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

Kurt Vonnegut

An essential condition of listening to God is that the mind should not be distracted by thoughts of resentment, ill-temper, hatred or vengeance, all of which are comprised in the general term, the wrath of man.

R. V. G. Tasker