Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?