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“Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you're giving sweet talk or tough love.”
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“Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.”
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“Do not be afriad! I can see that Americans are not afraid. They are not afraid of the sun, they are not afraid of the wind, they are not afraid of 'today'. They are, generally speaking, brave, good people. And so I say to you today, always be brave. Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. God is with you. Do not be afraid to search for God-then you will truly be the land of the free, the home of the brave. God Bless America.”
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“I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.”
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“I have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for.”
Source : "Worth dying for". Benigno Aquino, Jr.'s speech before the Asia Society in New York City, visayandailystar.com. August 4, 1980.
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“These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.”
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“Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses”
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“I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?”
Source : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”