It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Ambrose Bierce

My neighbor has a circular driveway... He can't get out.

Steven Wright

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Howard Dietz

The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide.

Charles R. Brown

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

Jacqueline Carey

To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful everything that happens is of consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility. To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for unlimited possibility.

James P. Carse

Women are always beautiful.

Ville Valo

My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

Marcus Valerius Martial

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

Richard D. Zanuck

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myselfwould be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

Marlon Brando

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Georges Bernanos