Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

Mike Mills

He would say, 'How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away someday, far away...' And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death.

Arthur Rimbaud

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

P. J. O'Rourke

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends -- and he accepts it.

Larry McMurtry

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Edmund Burke

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

Gabriela Sabatini

The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.

Anon.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

Tori Amos

I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.

Michael D. Higgins

I was an ugly kid. I worked in a pet store. People kept asking how big I get.

Rodney Dangerfield

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Richard Rogers

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

Albert Einstein