By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

Peter Davison

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

Sting

And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

Dana Rohrabacher

I don't believe that aliens exist,but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief.

Toba Beta

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

Tom Hanks

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

Burt Reynolds

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.

Elif Shafak

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Honore de Balzac

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you

John Lennon, Royal Variety Perfo

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which

Arthur Koestler

Why are there five syllables in the word monosyllabic?

Steven Wright

Houston, it looks like we got us a Dragon by the tail.

Don Pettit