You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Lawrence Durrell

We aren't cool and never will be.

Chris Martin

She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.

Lloyd Alexander

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.

Jerry Saltz

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

C.S. Lewis

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Mark Strand

Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.

Gladys Taber

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

Isabel Lucas

I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

Ashley Tisdale

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Franz Grillparzer

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don DeLillo