A obra de arte deve dominar o espectador. O espectador não deve dominar a obra de arte.

A educação é uma coisa admirável, mas é bom recordar que nada do que vale a pena saber pode ser ensinado.

A insatisfação é o primeiro passo para o progresso de um homem ou de uma nação.

A arte começa onde a imitação acaba.

A diferença entre a literatura e o jornalismo é que o jornalismo é ilegível e a literatura não é lida.

A arte é a forma mais intensa de individualismo que o mundo já conheceu.

A essência do pensamento, tal como a essência da vida, é o crescimento.

A caridade cria uma multidão de pecados.

A experiência é o nome que damos aos nossos erros.

A infância não é mais do que um longo percurso de inocente escuta às portas para se ouvir o que se devia ignorar.

A mais alta e mais baixa forma de crítica é de género autobiográfico.

Aquilo a que chamamos de falta de sinceridade é muito simplesmente o método pelo qual multiplicamos as nossas personalidades.

A sociedade frequentemente perdoa o criminoso, ela nunca perdoa o sonhador.

A moralidade é apenas a atitude que adoptamos para com as pessoas de que pessoalmente não gostamos.

As religiões morrem quando se prova que são verdadeiras. A ciência é uma sequência de religiões mortas.

As pessoas hoje conhecem o preço de tudo e o valor de nada.

Aqueles que não fazem nada estão sempre dispostos a criticar os que fazem algo.

As nossas caras são verdadeiras máscaras que nos foram dadas para ocultarem os pensamentos.

A moda é o que a gente traz, o que está fora de moda é o que trazem os outros.

A morte é a única coisa que me terrifica. Detesto-a. Hoje em dia pode-se sobreviver a tudo excepto isso.

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

Say no to everything, so you can say yes to the one thing.

Its just not easy to explain to someone else what you dont understand yourself.

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know.

Part of the process of acting in a film that you're also directing is really trusting the people around you to capture your vision, which hopefully you have communicated well to them.

Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

Starting today, I need to forget what’s gone. Appreciate what still remains and look forward to what’s coming next.

If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.

The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it's the people already in the workforce. Why not give industry a voice?

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

When I was a teenager, I was really into hair; I dyed it different colours and had loads of haircuts. I shaved my head when I was 17 - it was pretty radical!

I like to play strong women.

Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.

All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place.

I like the 'Science Channel,' the 'Discovery Channel,' I like 'Discovery Times,' which is a fabulous hybrid of the 'New York Times' and 'Discovery Channel.' Maybe I'm just an old man, but I like to watch that stuff.