No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Thomas Jefferson
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. Honore de Balzac
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. Oscar Wilde
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. Marcel Proust Self-discovery Mind
All the good maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice. Blaise Pascal Practice
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied? Virginia Woolf
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. Dale Carnegie Self-discovery Present
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. Ansel Adams Truth Humanity
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Victor Hugo
Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well. Michael Ende Art Listening
Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room. Quentin Tarantino Breathing
I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products. Richard Wagner
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. Abraham Lincoln Philosophy
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. Saint Augustine
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. Ernest Hemingway Seriousness
If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious. Neale Donald Walsch Spirituality
I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day. Roger Ebert
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere. Quentin Tarantino
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. Ansel Adams
One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day. Jean de La Fontaine
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. Mikhail Lermontov
No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things. Karl Lagerfeld
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. Anton Chekhov Success
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing. Oliver Stone
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. Lucretius
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. Nikola Tesla Reality
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. Jules Verne
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. Abraham Lincoln
