To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Elie Wiesel

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

Lady Gaga

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

Charles Fort

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

Michael Chiklis

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

John Malkovich

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

George Santayana

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Baltasar Gracian

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.

Shuler Hensley

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Thomas Sowell

To love is to destroy. To be loved is to be the destroyed.

Cassandra Clare

I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.

Naomi Judd

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Archibald MacLeish