In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

Khaled Hosseini

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -- each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second S

We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.

Dwayne Andreas

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people before, they were run by creative people.

Enrique Iglesias

Genius is independent of situation.

Charles Churchill

'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.

Matt LeBlanc

La sua vita era ancora troppo breve, per sapere che non c'è cosa più imminente dell'impossibile, e che quanto dobbiamo sempre prevedere è l'imprevisto.

Victor Hugo

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

Primo Levi

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

William Styron