At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

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Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!

Alexander Herzen

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

William Hazlitt

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us and it was very still but there were whispers.

Black Elk

I inherited this country when I was only a child, Nahuseresh. I have held it. I have fought down rebellious barons. I've fought Sounis to keep the land on this side of the mountains. I have killed men and watched them hang. I've seen them tortured to keep this country safe and . How did you think I did this if I was a fool with cow eyes for any handsome man with gold in his purse?

Megan Whalen Turner

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

Thomas Fuller

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Igor Stravinsky

Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.

Proverb