If the service is free, the product being sold is you.

Let guilty men remember, their black deedsDo lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

John Webster, The White Devil; (

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.

William Labov

I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.

Samuel Goldwyn

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Ellen Key

In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.

Woody Allen, A Brief Yet Helpful

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

Audie Murphy

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

Greer Garson

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Joseph Conrad

There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.

Joaquin Phoenix

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

i have never been more than a dreamand the dreameris awake

Nirmala