The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

My dreams were all my own I accounted for them to nobody they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife.

Al Bundy

That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.

Tony Wilson

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

David Bailey

One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.

Cynthia Ozick

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Dr. David Schwartz

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Theodore Roosevelt

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!

Oscar Wilde

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes- a time for men and women to be heroic in their faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

Dallas Willard

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.

Kristen Wiig