An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

Adam Ant

There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward.

Peter Ackroyd

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller

My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

Masiela Lusha

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

George Bernard Shaw

I bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.

Steven Wright

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Philip Guedalla

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Akira Kurosawa

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

William Feather

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

Orson Welles

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applauses which he cannot keep; so that scarcely can two persons meet, but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other

Samuel Johnson

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau