It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that each moment of life ought to be motivated. Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends.

Georges Bataille

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Katharine Lee Bates

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

Sting

My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--It gives a lovely light!

Edna St. Vincent Millay, First F

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

James Dyson

I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.

Sean Connery

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins exhumed and priced open, the photographs put on show what we were and what we will be again.

Peter Conrad

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

May L. Becker

Wisdom thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten. Science is got by diligence; but Discretion and Wisdom cometh of GOD.

Pythagoras

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

David Mamet