I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Notebook E,

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Benjamin Disraeli

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Janis Joplin

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Andre Breton

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Christina Rossetti

But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!'

Charles Dickens

To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Chil

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Ambrose Bierce

I have two dream roles: One would be a biopic of someone I admire and respect and the other one would be some sort of action drama film similar to a 'Bourne Identity.' I just really want to do an intelligent action drama film.

Michael Ealy

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben &amp The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records.

Ty Segall

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

Jennifer Aniston