The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

Marissa Mayer

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

Leonard Bernstein

A sadder vision yet: thine aged sire Shaming his hoary locks with treacherous wile! And dost thou now doubt Truth to be a liar? And wilt thou die, that hast forgot to smile?

Lewis Carroll

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

Billy Joel

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

Alexander Herzen

Hatred is the madness of the heart.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.

Charles Manson

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

St. Francis De Sales

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

James Madison

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.

Janet Suzman