Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.
Christian Bale
Better suffer for the truth than prosper in a falsehood.
Danish proverb
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.
Christopher Hitchens
Wise care keeps what it has gained.
The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
Orson Scott Card
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
The failures and successes are necessary for learning.
Wynonna Judd
Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.
Garth Ennis
Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt Vonnegut
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Margaret Cho
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
David Bowie
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm
You are time. Foul time, who steals the gold from a maiden's hair and takes the sapphire from a child's eyes. Dark time, who has stolen from every thing there ever was all the things that it held precious and divine... And left nothing but ashes and memories and the grave.
Neil Gaiman
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
Bruce Springsteen
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
Elayne Boosler
You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
Virginia Woolf
There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
Ernest Istook
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.
Matt Drudge
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
Nancy Pelosi
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
Jane Austen
Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
Plato
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot
We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely
C.S. Lewis
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David Thoreau
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
Ernest Hemingway
I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
George Bernard Shaw
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
Pliny the Elder
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
I can't travel without Sudoku.
Robert Ballard
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!
William Shakespeare
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.
Rodney Dangerfield
Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
George William Curtis
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
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