Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.
It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about.
Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.
Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.
Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
