Quotes By Famous Authors: [W]
An idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ...
Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.
We are not living in the land of the living and going to the land of the dying, but rather, we are living in the ...
I write songs simply because I get a kick out of making them exist. I'm also sort of addicted to the recording studio, and making ...
If all you have is music, then you don't have music
If life is a dream, I never want to awaken.
It was one of those times when the unsatisfactory complexity of the world fades far enough into the distance for the moment to become a ...
There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and ...
The assailant is often in the right; the assailed is always.
The root meaning of phobo, the Greek term for fear, is "flight." That's the nature of fear. Fear causes us to run away from things ...
Not for one single day Can I discern my way, But this I surely know- Who gives the day Will show the way, So I ...
Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.
The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within ...
Frankly, the trouble with winter is, it is all backbone. It is fleshless, insensate, with neither a breast to be leaned on nor a heart ...
Are you afraid the Ender Dragon is coming after you?" Lucy joked. "I'm looking at the moon," Steve said quite seriously. "I think I want ...
The thing to do when you're impatient," he proceeded, "is to turn to your left and ask advice from your death. An immense amount of ...
Characters and events fashion bonds that the heart quietly gathers into itself until heart and 'home' are one and the same. This process happens in ...
Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other ...
Artists try to depict people; and people depict the artist's' conception of people.
You create your own universe as you go along
Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and put it down. ...
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.
Do, try, put into action, and be heard...
It's a matter of how the bullpen looks as to whether Bell goes in there or Crow goes in there. Bell won't be ready for ...
And yet I wasn't sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we search ...
Though I wondered what she ever made of my professed love for and intentions to marry Big Bird, the hottie of Sesame Street.
Higher level independence starts with the freedom and independence of the mind to think and act according to the highest principles of knowledge and worthy ...
You just have to let love lead you
Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium with hot bodies, ...
Men are children," my mother instructed me. To her they always seemed pitiable, easily manipulated creatures, good for sex, to be sure, but in important ...
But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come ...
A man fighting for his life can do more than he ever imagined he could.
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching ...
A millisecond before fifty-two tonnes of intercontinental ballistic missile obliterated him completely.
Friends die in war. It is easier to remember this before the war than after.
Most human beings are, unfortunately, ugly enough without putting glasses upon them, and to disfigure any of the really beautiful faces that we have with ...
I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.
This world is not a playground where children at play are pampered by friendly nannies.
Just look at what happens to humans after they die-most of that is done by microbes.
I have to have some kind of creative outlet; otherwise, I'm hell to be around.
Whether philosophically you believe in a public subsidization of an arena or a stadium, that's the reality. We can't have professional basketball in this community ...
These ministries have merged pseudo-science with religious beliefs to create, in effect, a new religion, ... Eventually they will collapse under the weight of their ...
(at age thirteen) I think sharks smile like women dad. Like Jenny's smiling at you right now. ...But have you ever noticed how porpoises smile ...
The only real freedom we have left is the home. Only there can we express anything we want.
It is merely paper money without the paper-electronic registration of units of paper money. It is a mirage-a chimeric representation of something that doesn't exist ...
Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.
You could never know what transpired beneath another's skin.
We assume of others what we know of ourselves
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.