"All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream; The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves."

-- William Cowper

#Death Quotes #Dream Quotes #Flower Quotes

“I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.”
“Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.”
“Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult.”
“While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.”
“I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties.”
“Liberals in blue states just think that when they look in the mirror and say to themselves "I'm for the environment, I'm for the children, I'm for the gay people, I'm against war," it pits automatically, and the oppressor/oppressed leftist mindset that anyone that would disagree with them isn't conservative, they're crazy. They're Nazis, they're facists, they're evil.”

Source : Source: www.newsbusters.org

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