What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Luis Bunuel

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

Anonymous

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Beatrix Campbell

If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.

Ricki Lake

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

Joan Didion

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

Source Unknown

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Horace Mann, Twelfth Annual Repo

Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.

Werner Heisenberg

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

Dinesh D'Souza

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.

Virginia Hamilton

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin