Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

G. K. Chesterton

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

Robert De Niro

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Theodor Adorno

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

Skeet Ulrich

What I am seeing right now is a man who is so dominated by his mother that he is willing to throw away his marriage in order to protect her from the trauma of growing up and acting like an adult.

Orson Scott Card

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

Aung San Suu Kyi

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

Langston Hughes

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Plato

Accord, n. Harmony.

Ambrose Bierce

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

Amy Strum Alcott