When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Susan Sontag

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

Thor Heyerdahl

How can you fall in love at first sight when you can't even see?

Melinda Cross

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.

Gerald Early

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

Wallace Stevens

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Sigmund Freud

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

Stanley Kubrick

His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage.

William Shakespeare

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

Tommy Chong

To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.

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