Is this not the true romantic feeling not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

Namie Amuro

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

George Washington

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

Daniel Dae Kim

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

Claude Debussy, The Engulfed Cat

Life always gets harder toward the summit - the cold increases, the responsibility increases

Friedrich Nietzsche

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Paracelsus

You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.

Jean Baudrillard

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

Laurel Clark

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Joseph Joubert

Kinder lieben ihre Eltern zuerst. Nach einer Weile beurteilen sie sie. Selten, wenn je, verzeihen sie ihnen.

Oscar Wilde

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

J. K. Rowling