"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself."
-Edward Gibbon
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
-Edward Gibbon
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"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
-Edward Gibbon
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"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."
-Edward Gibbon
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"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
-Edward Gibbon
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"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."
-Edward Gibbon
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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
-Tom Stoppard
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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