Mikki Jamison Quotes

#1. The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Rosa Luxemburg

#2. The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n' roll. That, of course, didn't work at all. Your taste in rock 'n' roll does not say anything about you, morally or otherwise.

Aleksandar Hemon

#3. A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#5. Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

Lev Vygotsky

#6. In the future - 60-80 years from now, what would a historian of that time look back at as the one big thing that changed everything?

Osama A. Hashmi

#7. My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.

Daphne Guinness

#8. Any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul destroying.

Evelyn Waugh

#9. Courage is the difference between success and failure. You must have this attitude, this is the right thing to do.

Choa Kok Sui

#10. Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

Leonard Nimoy

#11. Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#12. All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

George Santayana

#13. I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

Conor Oberst