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

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?'

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

I've always been really in touch with my primal instincts. In my profession, you have to be.

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, 'Well somebody has to be in them,' so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.

Even I have been at that point in my life where I thought I didn't have enough extra money laying around to start investing in stocks for my own retirement plans.

Life is too short not to experiment.

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.

Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.

I try not to think about the trope or whether or not my books are like 'Fifty' or 'Crossfire' or any other series.

The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

Wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

I believe everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so you can appreciate them when theyre right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

I felt that I did have the crowd behind me. That obviously helps a lot.

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.