Thomas Jefferson -- still surv

I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.

Lana Del Rey

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Thucydides

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Lee Iacocca

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Abraham Maslow

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

Edward Weston

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.

Alexander Payne

My religion lies in my composition.

John Philip Sousa

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

Edgar Allan Poe

Impending doom, it was a familiar sweater, we all wore it and as scratchy as it felt against our skin, we kept it on.

Holly Hood

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

Gertrude Stein

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Christian Nevell Bovee

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Lyndon B. Johnson