It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

Yael Naim

Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.

Elizabeth Drew

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

David Frum

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

Famke Janssen

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Edgar Degas

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

Sean Paul

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Parker J. Palmer

Thou strange piece of wild nature!

Colley Cibber

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old, and I had to hide the relationship.

Ellen Pompeo

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

Bern Williams

It is right to give every man his due.

Plato