Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

Wilhelm Wundt

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.

Herbert Marcuse

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Charles Baudelaire

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together...

Charles Dickens

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.

John Dos Passos

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Thomas Fuller

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

Dweezil Zappa

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Melvin Powers

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

Henry Rollins

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

Billy Connolly

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

Ann Bancroft