Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.

Immanuel Kant, from From Idee zu

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Thomas Huxley

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

Marvin Gaye

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Martha Graham

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

George Bancroft

I know the path by heart, by heart- a funny expression, so true. My heart knows right where to go.

Cynthia Hand

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

Macaulay Culkin

For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate.

Walter Lippmann

It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.

George Eliot

Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Dont give any credit to luck. It never deserves to have one

Kowtham Kumar K

Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.

Mira Grant