The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off. Erich Maria Remarque
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. Yves Saint Laurent
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being. Henry David Thoreau
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. Honore de Balzac Politics Power
My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart? Emir Kusturica
Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. Eric Allin Cornell Learning Travel
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. Henry David Thoreau
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. Theophrastus
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman. Alexandre Dumas
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. John Keats
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. Sophocles Truth Knowledge
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. Tennessee Williams
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. Salman Rushdie Freedom
Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well. Annie Leibovitz
If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me. Saint Patrick
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. Voltaire Art
A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it. Sylvia Browne Spirit
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time. John Steinbeck
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. Ernst Mach
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play. Carl Orff Children Learning Beginning
Most journalists today work for the film industry and not as a sort of mirror of the industry. And that phenomenon has struck the French as well. Wim Wenders
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. Jacques Yves Cousteau
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Walter Scott Power
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. Franz Liszt Ambition
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations. Rene Descartes
