Appearances are deceptive.

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

Charles Baudelaire

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Sir William Temple

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

Naomi Watts

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Bernard Williams

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

Frank Dobson

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

Alan K. Simpson

Dream big and dare to fail.

Norman D. Vaughan

I am a slave to your love. Well, more like indentured servant.

Jarod Kintz

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Stephen King

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau