Quotes By Famous Authors: [W]
History's greatest liquidator of Jews, the thick-witted Heinrich Himmler, was a chicken farmer.
Art is always to an extent about trying to create order out of chaos.
I love all those who understand my care.
Whether it is Paul defending Judaism, Augustine pursing philosophical learnedness, Luther attempting complete ritual self-abasement, each finally realized he had given himself to secular forms ...
Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's ...
When you mean a show like this, you have to say to me a show exactly like this, the way it was done.
[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty ...
Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.
Woman marries, falls out of love with her husband after a time, and then if a male child arrives, shifts her passion from father to ...
Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.
As God's revelation, Jesus is at the same time the revelation of the human nature and of the destiny of man.
When you take the bull by the horns ... what happens is a toss-up.
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
It was ever and always the plain offer of God to all the peoples of the earth through his elected servants of the promise-plan.
Faith is the daring of the soul to go further than it can see.
Anxiety is the fear of one's self.
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
Now if you are told that some piece of information will come as a shock to you, the chances are that you will really feel ...
Enoch considered the defiance in the painted eyes and the subtle perversion expressed with curling lips, and then he touched a pair of frozen lips ...
A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.
It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until ...
Repeated critic sounds like music classic. I prefer Mozard or Bethoven
Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we ...
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
This simple instance illustrates a silent epidemic at work all around us. The reality is that most people don 't think; they only rearrange their ...
Small conspiracies fail and large conspiracies are betrayed.
My pitching in 'Dazed and Confused' was so bad that they had to use cut-ins with a stunt double, and I spent most of that ...
Customers rarely know what they want until they don't get it.
There are moments when suddenly our eyes blink open and we recapture the excitement of living. Life becomes an adventure and we, adventurers.
Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that ...
Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.
My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's ...
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way ...
They really do feel under attack, rank-and-file officers and much of American police leadership, that they feel they're under attack from the federal government at ...
History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of ...
The linking of rationality with mysticism, knowability with what is unknown, makes it a powerful fetish that offers its programmers and users alike a sense ...
There has been only one Christmas the rest are anniversaries.
The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with ...
The bee is domesticated but not tamed.
I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.
Nearly all companies I have known," he would say in 1985, "have a number of businesses they should not be in.
Their analysis clearly revealed the existence of a color line that effectively blocked black occupational, residential, and social mobility. They demonstrated that any assumption about ...
Put in the starkest terms, there is no measure by which we can adequately quantify the devastation a mass nuclear attack would have on our ...
When I was 10 years old, we'd pick out a cow and boom! They'd hit it in the head with a hammer, lift it up ...
Sheryl Sandberg writes in her book Lean In that women need to shift from thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want ...
People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.
Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment ...
My heart is hardy, for I have suffered much on the seas and the battlefield: this will be only something more. But a ravenous belly ...
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.