When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was -- gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Vincent Van Gogh

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

Jonathan Davis

Dreaming is good. But working to make those dreams come true is even better.

Joel L.

The ultimate umpire of all things in life is -- fact.

Agnes C. Laut

I really love the independent movies and I just think that sometimes when they throw a lot of money into it and a lot of special effects and a lot of stunts that you lose the connection, the human connection and I personally love movies that are about the human connection.

Jane Seymour

Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.

Willa Cather

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.

George Steiner

The soul's emphasis is always right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There's too much risk in loving." the young boy said. "No" said the old man. "There's too much risk in not"

Atticus