"People hear and see what they expect to hear and see."

-- R.L. LaFevers

“What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?”
“In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.”
“A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.”

Source : 'Religion and the Rise of Capitalism' (1926)
“No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.”

Source : L'Ami du peuple newspaper, No. 559, August 27, 1791.
“I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine light on it and it kind of withers, then it probably wasn't a very good idea.”
“I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.”
“Show me a person who sees himself negatively and I will show you a person who sees others in a negative way.”
“I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.”

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