Happy 84th Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological. When there is complete attention there is no fear. But the actual fact of inattention breeds fear; fear arises when there is an avoidance of the fact, a flight; then the very escape itself is fear. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in. — India.Arie

The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying. — Ingmar Bergman

I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response. — Terry Gilliam

Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission. — Emmanuel Jal

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists. — Frank Carlucci

I love fiction that sounds like fact. As a matter of fact, I also like fact that sounds like fiction. — Ashwin Sanghi

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile. — Isabel Allende

Does he think the job of a librarian is so simple, so empty of content, that anyone can step up and do it for a thank-you and a cup of tea? Does he think that all a librarian does is to tidy the shelves? — Philip Pullman

Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Justin Bieber and I are going to get married some day. I also like Tom Cruise. He's very classy. — Bar Refaeli

Storytelling not only makes us human; it creates vulnerability. — Herbert Anderson

To write poems, I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry. — Nikki Giovanni

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot. — W. H. Auden