You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

Michael C. Hall

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

Henry David Thoreau

Most people give off as much heat as a 100 watt bulb, but not as much light.

Source Unknown

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

Brian Eno

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

Walter Isaacson

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

Zac Efron

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Oscar Wilde

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

Sting

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

William Faulkner

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

Juliette Binoche