My Super Sweet Sixteen Quotes & Sayings

What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially. — Ayn Rand

And though there were no children playing, no doves, no blue-shadowed roof tiles, I felt that the town was alive. And that if I heard only silence, it was because I was not accustomed to silence - maybe because my head was still filled with sounds and voices. — Juan Rulfo

Movement provides life's questions and life's answers simultaneously. — Gus Van Sant

Shake your business up and pour it. I don't have all day. — Raymond Chandler

I just express myself in any way I feel is appropriate at the moment. — Herbie Hancock

The FA Cup means a lot. There is a real passion here for the competition which you don't get elsewhere. It's a love affair. It's part and parcel of living up here. People might think I'm daft, but I'm not wrong; I'd rather win the Cup than the League. — Alan Shearer

When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do. So it's incredibly compelling to imagine yourself not only as someone to whom exciting things happen but as someone who is more than those around you. The problem is that then you begin to grow up and realize you're just a lowly muggle. ... Is it possible that all of us, weaned on these stories, end up inevitably disappointed with mundane life as it actually exists? — Paul Waldman

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. — Patti Smith

Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds. — Rick Wakeman