Quote of the Day

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

J.R.R. Tolkien

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Augusten Burroughs

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

J.K. Rowling

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Chuck Palahniuk

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

George Henry Lewes

Very few of us are what we seem.

Agatha Christie

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

Carrie Brownstein

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

Leila Josefowicz

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

Benjamin Franklin Wade

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

John Green

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

Connie Britton

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Edward Steichen

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

John Zorn

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Robert H. Schuller

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

Billy Graham

I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?

Eric Clapton