I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

George Eliot

Truth does not contradict truth.

Elizer Zvi Zweifel

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Henry L. Doherty

Ours is the century of enforced travel. . . of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

John Berger, Ev'ry Time We Say G

With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp.

Jim Loehr

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

Thomas Jefferson

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

Helen Thomas

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

Karl Lagerfeld

When the critics come around it's always too late.

Sir Sidney Nolan

Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

Josh Billings

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

Oprah Winfrey