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- I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003
- To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
- Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999
- It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mister Sandman, 1994
- Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.
- Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
- There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
- If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004
- Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
- Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
- Germaine Greer, O Magazine, September 2002
- Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
- M. F. K. Fisher
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