For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people. – Kurt Vonnegut
The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for Americas past success are still here to be tapped. – Michael Mandelbaum
What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful. – Jean Claude Van Damme
Punk is musical freedom. Its saying, doing and playing what you want. In Websters terms, nirvana means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and thats pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. – Kurt Cobain