"Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject."

-- Gore Vidal

#Sex Quotes #People Quotes #Subjects Quotes

“Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.”

Source : Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.55
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically.”

Source : Song: Colors Of The Wind
“Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams”
“We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an exÂternal, active, work project...”

Source : Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.184, Simon and Schuster
“If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.”
“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”
“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.”

Source : Title of speech to the people of Japan, May 3, 1948, upon the first anniversary of the Japanese constitution. MacArthur, A Soldier Speaks (1965), p. 194. Francis T. Miller, General Douglas MacArthur, Fighter for Freedom, p. 1, 1942.
“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

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