I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Calvin Coolidge

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Marcel Duchamp

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Dante Alighieri

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

W. C. Fields

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Mark Twain

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Paul Valery

Most people are boring and stupid.

Oscar Wilde

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.

Kate Millett

Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.

Terry Pratchett

Men should be saying I want to become a woman. The world would be a far better place if more men wanted to become women, than women wanted to become men.

Albert Halsey

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

Angelina Jolie

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Simon Van Booy