Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

Woody Allen

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

Ernst Mach

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

Idris Elba

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

Sir Thomas Browne

Bran thought about it. "Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?" That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him.

George R.R. Martin

The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

Harlan Miller

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Wayne Dyer

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Swami Vivekananda

Ron's eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair.

J.K. Rowling

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Arthur Koestler

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

Doug Horton

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli