Anyman's Quotes

#1. Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. I have two definitions for the word "magick." The first is knowing that I can effect change through my own will, even behind these bars; and the other meaning is more experiential - seeing beauty for a moment in the midst of the mundane.

Damien Echols

#3. Have faith in yourself. If you don't believe you can do it, you won't.

Tahereh Mafi

#4. One of the things that I always think about is the emotional sophistication of animals and how much we're learning about the emotional sophistication of animals. If you're eating a pig, you're essentially eating the equivalent of a four-year-old human being.

Bryan Fuller

#5. You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters.
That's not quite the same as wishing to be one

David Mitchell

#6. I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

Neal Stephenson

#7. When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

G.K. Chesterton