We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.

the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

Peter Ustinov

Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.

Ogwo David Emenike

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

Lasse Hallstrom

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Arnold Bennett

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

Wilson Mizner

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some Godmade object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Marc Chagall

Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.

Gemma Malley

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

Horace

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Adrian Cronauer

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

Nguyen Cao Ky

Most Americans are very cool people.

Henry Rollins

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

William F. Buckley, Jr.