Money, Chinese Proverb


金钱万能 [jīnqiánwànnéng]

- 中國俗談

Money talks.

- Chinese Proverb

almighty dollar

Love, Joan Crawford


Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

- Joan Crawford (1904-1977)

Modern art, Tom Stoppard


Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

- Tom Stoppard (1937- )

Universe, Henri Bergson


[L]'universe […] est une machine à faire des dieux.
Translation: The universe is a machine for making gods.

- Henri Bergson (1859-1941), The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, p. 317.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Universe

Advice, Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), Richelieu (1839)

Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.

Gun, Michelle Rodriguez

[after having attacked Col. Quaritch] Oops. You're not the only one with a gun! - Michelle Rodriguez as Trudy Chacon from Avatar (2009)

Money, Juvenal


It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

- Juvenal