And Quotes

Maybe love is like a pendulum. It swings back and forth, slowly, steadily, and sometimes you don't know where it will come to rest.

We all have trials and tribulations and that shows who we are as a person.

When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time

When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.

I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that's the one I'd be interested in redoing.

That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she's like, 'I just want to be a mom.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.

Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redemption, they're dangerous.

Every fear is fear of death.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid.

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

Humor is wit and love.

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.

And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.

Seek happy nights to happy days.W

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

Take it in what sense thou wilt.

I am curious about many things, and find the world around me, and the people and objects and things in it, equally fascinating. There is a great deal of that awe and wonder in me.

The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose.

Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

Cross over children. All are welcome. All welcome. Go into the Light. There is peace and serenity in the Light.

There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.

I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

My goal is to try to tell the public that America could use more science and technology in all aspects of its life.

Always be who YOU are, be self-aware, and love yourself tremendously!

The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

To the wizard death is merely a belief.