If people saw him building a giant pair of silver wings, then they too would believe that they could fly — Quote about Gomede why he built plane

If we let it change us then they will have won

This is not an ending of my choosing. From now on I will choose my own endings

Womanhood... not at all a pretty sight

He had never heard a name for such a person. Did such a hybrid thing even exist?

Promise me that you will not become a politician... promise me you will become a real revolutionary instead.

Choosing instead to step on a landmine and be blown to pieces

Marcus felt that their beauty was not to be trusted. It was a dangerous beauty

We are your family now

You cannot break me. You see, I know for certain that my parents were capable of flight

Valentine loved the idea that flight was possible for someone like him. Valentine believed.

This was how they learned their most valuable lesson about death - that after it there is life again, that things that perish will rise again, that after every ending there is another beginning

It is our reality, the way we live now, our truth. So of course we cannot acknowledge it, let alone print it

With acting, you do want to get every job, and you're trying to get every audition, but then you reach a certain stage where you start to kind of gravitate toward the stories and the people that have a similar heartbeat.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated.

If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.

So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.

Keep engaged in the all new popular and fancy positive side of things

I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.

Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

I'm pale-skinned so I don't feel at my best on a beach.

I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.

No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.

Combining their operating business will make Volkswagen and Porsche even stronger - both financially and strategically - going forward.

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.