And Quotes

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.

The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.

Bricks are independent but can work well with other, tough to crack, fiercely loyal and put in the right spot will hold anything and everything that you’ve ever held dear with the greatest of ease.

Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

Tarzan-like men are my weakness, apparently.

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

To be, or not to be: what a question!

A loud smile is often a fake laugh.

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.

God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in the world how can you understand God?

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

It is life that hurts you not death.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.

My tiny scary friend is coming

Let me get this straight. I can't take the vampire with me because if I remove the stake, he can kill us all. Now I can't take the girl because she's what? some kind of ninja witch?

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.