I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Yes you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to knock at my door - to make an end of Halvard Solness.

My dad was a dentist but I wasn't a hygienist. I assisted my dad.

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.

I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.

All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.

Let students use technologies in the classroom.

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.