Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.

Gus Van Sant

You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.

Kahlil Gibran

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Thomas Kempis

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Jim Rohn

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Henry Miller

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

Anita Shreve

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

Alice Sebold

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Vincent Van Gogh

When you procrastinate you become a slave to yesterday.

Stephen McCranie

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

Ellen Burstyn

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

Eden Phillpotts