The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

George Herbert

Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic

Daniel J. Boorstin

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Oliver Goldsmith

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Bertrand Russell

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

Don Van Vliet

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Sir Thomas Browne

There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.

Katy Perry

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

Alexander Herzen

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

Ezra Pound

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

Bishop Robert South

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Carl Sagan