If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

The greatest leader in your life is your mind. It is what controls your feelings and emotions.

In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things.

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.

Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access.

I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.

I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film.