We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the

Who loves, raves.

Lord Byron

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

David H. Souter

A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left over for the other purposes; but those whose livelihood is assured do not, on that account, cease to be active

Bertrand Russell

My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'

Jennifer Hudson

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

Jackie Chan

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

Louis Farrakhan

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

Pauline Hanson

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Robert A. Heinlein

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Steven Wright

I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him.

Emma Roberts