- “About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.” – Manolo Blahnik
- “Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.” – James Earl Jones
- “All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.” – Walt Disney
- “All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.” – Max Beerbohm
- “All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I’ve gone off the top, into total fantasy.” – Eddie Campbell
- “All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.” – Carl Jung
- “Although it is a fantasy film, it’s as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.” – Orlando Bloom
- “Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.” – Bryant H. McGill
- “And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You’ll note there’s no science in it. It’s a kind of grim fantasy.” – Octavia Butler
- “And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.” – Peter Shaffer
- “Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.” – Godfried Danneels
- “Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.” – Joan D. Vinge
- “But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation.” – Fisher Stevens
- “But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.” – Iris Murdoch
- “But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.” – Shelley Duvall
- “But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.” – Elizabeth Moon
- “But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.” – Octavia Butler
- “CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.” – Arthur C. Clarke
- “Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can’t take the process too personally.” – Joseph Barbera
- “Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience – to see something that’s not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it’s like their lives.” – Erika Slezak
- “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” – Woody Allen
- “At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ” – Jean Houston
- “Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.” – Unknown
- “Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.” – Henry Ward Beecher
- “Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.” – Jack Handey, “Deep Thoughts”, Saturday Night Live
- “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – Unknown
- “Laughter is an instant vacation.” – Milton Berle
- “What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!” – Agnes Repplier
- “So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.” – Gordon W. Allport
- “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” – Victor Borge
- “What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.” – Yiddish Proverb
- “When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other.” – Alan Alda
- “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” – Kurt Vonnegut
- “A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish Proverb
- “Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.” – Bob Newhart
- “A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.” – Puzant Kevork Thomajan
- “There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.” – Françoise Sagan
- “I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, «Ain’t that the truth.»” – Quincy Jones
- “Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.” – Henri Bergson
- “Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.” – Max Eastman
- “A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.” – Raymond Hitchcock
- “Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” – Kurt Vonnegut
- “Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.” – Anna Fellows Johnston
- “No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.” – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 4
- “You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” – Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
- “With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Whoever said “laughter is the best medicine” never had gonorrhea.” – Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, “Robbed a Stoner Blind”, original airdate 16 November 2006
- “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.” – Ken Kesey
- “If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” – Henny Youngman
- “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.” – Richard Whately
- “The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” – Jean Kerr, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, 1957
- “I’d like mornings better if they started later.” – Unknown
- “For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?” – Thornton Wilder
- “Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.” – Robert Brault
- “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning – and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either.” – John J. Welsh
- “If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.” – Unknown
- “Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.” – Jean Giraudoux
- “The sun is but a morning star.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- “There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.” – Unknown
- “There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.” – Unknown
- “I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise.” – Jeb Dickerson
- “I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.” – Joanne Sherman
- “Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.” – Josh Billings
- “The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I’m vertical.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon
- “Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up.” – Argosy
- “One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.” – Robert Brault
- “The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “I’ll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.” – Emily Dickinson
- “To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.” – Ambrose Bierce
- “No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.” – Robert Lynd
- “Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.” – William Feather
- “Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up.” – Ellen Goodman
- “I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.” – Rita Rudner
- “Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.”
- “I’d rather let the music speak for itself.”
- “I’m not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.”
- “It’s probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.”
- “People think our music’s very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it’s just the opposite, really… I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.”
- “Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.”
- “The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.”
- “We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.”
- “It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” – William Somerset Maugham
- “It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.” – John J. Watson
- “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – John Calvin Coolidge
- “The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
- “Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.” – James Corbett
- “Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.” – Anthony (Tony) Robbins
- “A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must….be undaunted when the going gets tough.” – Ronald Reagan
- “We will either find a way or make one.” – Hannibal
- “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi
- “When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but all that had gone before.” – Jacob Riis
- “The more you prepare, the luckier you appear.” – Terry Josephson
- “If-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control.” – Unknown
- “Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.” – Dr. A. B. Meldrum
- “A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” – Robert Hughes
- “Am I a romantic? I’ve seen Wuthering Heights ten times. I’m a romantic.”
- “Anything I’ve done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.”
- “As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”
- “France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.”
- “How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.”
- “I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”
- “I don’t pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.”
- “I guess I’m attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”
- “I may have a feather duster down my pants.”
- “I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”
- “I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.”
- “I think everybody’s nuts.”
- “I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.”
- “I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.”
- “I’m an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.”
- “I’m not sure I’m adult yet.”
- “I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.”
- “If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.”
- “If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,’ I beg you to slap me.”
- “It’s all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It’s like you’ve met your reason to live.”
- “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher
- “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
- “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp
- “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” – William Faulkner
- “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler
- “Painting is silent poetry.” – Plutarch
- “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.” – Kojiro Tomita
- “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” – Amy Lowell
- “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” – Schumann
- “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” – Pablo Picasso
- “I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” – Henri Matisse
- “The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.” – Robert Brault
- “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley
- “Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
- “Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser
- “The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” – Paul Strand
- “All art requires courage.” – Anne Tucker
- “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas
- “It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.” – Henry Moore
- “Pictures must not be too picturesque.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” – André Gide
- “Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art.” – Wynetka Ann Reynolds
- “But that’s what being an artist is – feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.” – The New Yorker
- “War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell
- “It’ll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.” – Unknown
- “I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, «Mother, what was war?»” – Eve Merriam
- “The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.” – Albert Einstein
- “The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.” – David Friedman
- “«There are no atheists in foxholes» isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.” – James Morrow
- “Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.” – Colonel Potter
- “All the arms we need are for hugging.” – Unknown
- “A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” – Napoleon
- “A great war leaves the country with three armies – an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.” – German Proverb
- “The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums.” – Arthur Koestler
- “Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.” – Colman McCarthy
- “Draft beer, not people.” – Bob Dylan
- “The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.” – John F. Kennedy
- “What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk.” – Unknown
- “Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people – and kill them.” – Pacifist Badge, 1978
- “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “War makes thieves and peace hangs them.” – George Herbert
- “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” – Jeanette Rankin
- “You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.” – David Lloyd George
- “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.” – Carl Sandburg
- “In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” – José Narosky
- “We kind o’ thought Christ went agin war an’ pillage.” – James Russell Lowell
- “A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
- “A jug fills drop by drop.”
- “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”
- “All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.”
- “All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”
- “Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”
- “An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
- “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”
- “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
- “Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
- “Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”
- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
- “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
- “Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.”
- “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
- “Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”
- “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
- “Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”
- “He is able who thinks he is able.”
- “He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”
- “A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.” – Orlando Bloom
- “A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgi
- “A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce
- “A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.” – James Joyce
- “A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.” – Robert Morgan
- “Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.” – George G. Simpson
- “And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.” – Adam Weishaupt
- “And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.” – Juan Goytisolo
- “As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.” – Harry Johnston
- “As the Nation’s primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.” – Judy Biggert
- “As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.” – Ivan Pavlov
- “Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.” – Arthur Keith
- “But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of – the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.” – J. L. Austin
- “But I’m an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.” – Karlheinz Stockhausen
- “But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.” – William Shatner
- “But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.” – Joseph Rotblat
- “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
- “Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man’s onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.” – Albert Pike