The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

Jeff Lindsay

A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

Ezra Pound

I searched my mind for the right visualization. I knew it had to start with what I put in my head. That is where all my accomplishments are formed.

Tina M. Randolph

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, speech befor

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Ariel Durant

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. For history's sake we shouldn't keep him there.

Ernest Hemingway

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

C.S. Lewis

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

Douglas Trumbull

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

Gregory Maguire

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

Patrick Rothfuss

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

Agnes De Mille