Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

Michael Arad

Dress shabbily, they notice the dress. Dress impeccably, they notice the woman.

Coco Chanel

Do you believe then that the sciences would have arisen and grown up if the sorcerers, alchemists, astrologers and witches had not been their forerunners; those who, with their promisings and foreshadowings, had first to create a thirst, a hunger, and a taste for hidden and forbidden powers?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

Tony Campolo

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.

Angela Carter

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

Marianne Williamson

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.

Samuel Johnson

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

Billy Connolly

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

George Santayana, The Life of Re

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

Lewis Thompson

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence

Thomas Wolfe

The weakest arm is strong enough, that strikesWith the sword of justice.

John Webster, The Duchess Of Mal