Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
Kurt Vonnegut
I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
Lauren Graham
Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
Ted Turner
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
Look on beauty,And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;Which therein works a miracle in nature,Making them lightest that wear most of it:So are those crisped snaky golden locksWhich make such wanton gambols with the wind,Upon supposed fairness, often knownTo be the dowry of a second head,The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.Thus ornament is but the guiled shoreTo a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarfVeiling an Indian beauty; in a word,The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest.
William Shakespeare
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.
Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve.
Plato
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
On veut gagner de l'argent pour vivre heureux et tout l'effort et le meilleur d'une vie se concentrent pour le gain de cet argent. le bonheur est oublié, le moyen pris pour la fin.
Albert Camus
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.
Arthur Smith
One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
Religion and law try to escape from criticism, religion by saying that it is divine and law by showing that it is powerful.
Leo Tolstoy
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.
Richard Pryor
In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
Quentin Tarantino
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.
George Orwell
I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.
Terry Bradshaw
I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.
Jodi Picoult
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.
Terry Pratchett
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
I am inclined to believe that few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise, but by the help of those they provoke.
Samuel Johnson
I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.
Paula Poundstone
The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
Gary Oldman
Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Shirley Chisholm
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.
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