I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Albert Camus

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

James Allen

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

Harold Pinter

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

Demi Lovato

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Angela Carter

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

Anne Tyler

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

Tom Hopkins

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Marianne Williamson

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

Keith Richards

Hunger is the best pickle.

Benjamin Franklin

If a person were to try stripping the disguises from actors while they play a scene upon stage, showing to the audience their real looks and the faces they were born with, would not such a one spoil the whole play ? And would not the spectators think he deserved to be driven out of the theatre with brickbats, as a drunken disturber ?... Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage ? Moreover, this manager frequently bids the same actor to go back in a different costume, so that he who has but lately played the king in scarlet now acts the flunkey in patched clothes. Thus all things are presented by shadows.

Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise o

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Arthur Balfour