Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
David HareWaste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.
Robert GreeneWe’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
Charles BukowskiThere are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David ThoreauArt should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Oscar WildeBullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.
Ernest HemingwayWhat women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.
Kevin HartAt ev’ry word a reputation dies.
Alexander PopeThe truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.
Angelina JolieThe moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.
David BowieIn war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.
Douglas MacArthurTo wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Margaret ThatcherOf course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.
Dolly PartonAll my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie ChaplinControl thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
EpictetusI was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody AllenOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand RussellWell, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.
Jerry SeinfeldWhat we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
Aldous HuxleyYour emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.
Joyce MeyerIf my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil GibranThe boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan PoeWhen I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.
Joel OsteenThe gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John MuirOne and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Baruch SpinozaIf you can talk, you can write.
Christopher HitchensA poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert FrostLove can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Paulo CoelhoThe uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
Brene BrownThe spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
Leonardo da VinciWe have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
Kurt CobainThe poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
David HareWhy is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Bertrand RussellBehind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich NietzscheIt is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert EinsteinMusic is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.
AuroraYou can stroke people with words.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
Lady GagaI am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘
Mahatma GandhiThere are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.
Matthew McConaugheyPart of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.
Steve JobsOne of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz KafkaI always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular.
Amy WinehouseEvery bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
Amy WinehouseI make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.
Christopher HitchensAll violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
John RuskinI have no human feelings.
Karl LagerfeldWe get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Albert CamusI’m drawn to bad romances.
Lady GagaI kind of love Cole Miller.
Conor McGregorA squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
Mark ZuckerbergFor awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott FitzgeraldFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George OrwellDepression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.
Joyce MeyerOne often makes music to supplement one’s world.
Brian EnoThe poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
AristotleI hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.
Jackie ChanDeath is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George EliotI feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
Lyndon B. Johnson