Träume und Märchen waren ihr eigentlicher Lebensinhalt, dachte ich jetzt. Deshalb hat sie sich auch umgebracht, dachte ich, weil ein Mensch, der nur Träume und Märchen sich zu seinem Lebensinhalt gemacht hat, in dieser Welt nicht überleben kann, nicht überleben darf, dachte ich.

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

Richard Dawkins

Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Skeptics are never deceived.

Proverb

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

John Hoeven

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.

Marc Garneau

...Skyscraper National Park

Kurt Vonnegut

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Henry David Thoreau

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

Paul Cezanne

The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!

Meagan Good

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion

Mark Twain

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Maya Angelou