Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. – Jos
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. – Sigmund Freud
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. – Franz Kafka
When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because thats what sells records and then you realize, All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago, it feels good to have success come from whats actually inside of you. – Jessica Simpson
