The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
The ultimate crime is not to care.
I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.
So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.
I must of woke up this morning with a bug up my ass, I think I'll just haul off and belt the next jerk that I pass.
If you're not satisfied with the way the world is, or if you think the world can be better, you have to figure out a way to know yourself and better yourself. Then you have the assurance that something in the world has improved.
There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money.
When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.
Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.
It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.