I went down to the store and bought some blank cassette tapes.When I got home I put one in my cassette deck and turned it upfull blast. I was walking around my house when I heard a knockon my door. It was my neighbor complaining about thenoise... He's a mime.

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

Luis Barragan

Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will) -- he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are the failures.

Edward Lewis Wallant

People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Francis Bacon

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Angela Carter

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

John B. S. Haldane

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

John Hurt

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Blaise Pascal

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

William Penn

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Oscar Wilde