He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.

Tom Hiddleston

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Ernest Dimnet

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Kim Cattrall, In The New Vulcan

Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.

Woody Allen

I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

Samuel Johnson

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Oscar Levant

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Abigail Adams

I'll never love any but you, the morning song of the lark; I'll never love any but you, the nightingale's hymn in the dark.

Alfred Tennyson

Nothing recedes like success.

Walter Winchell

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Katharine Hepburn

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

Gary Locke

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

Julian Bond