I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.

I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all these things but are not madly in love: you have still not begun to live.

C. JoyBell C.

She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of her. That she was worth nothing. And still a look from him could make her tremble with mingled hatred and longing. It was like poison in her blood, to which Jem was the only antidote.

Cassandra Clare

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force

Blaise Pascal

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Dorothea Brande

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

Sting

the moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open.

Lori Wick

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

Cleo Moore

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Cecil Parkinson

Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

Oliver Cromwell

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity

Aristotle

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

Eddie Van Halen

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Peter Ustinov