Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Grace Hopper

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

Pope Shenouda III

All my movies got screwed up because of my personality.

Harvey Weinstein

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

Doug Coupland

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

C.S. Lewis

n.: In Italian, a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison.

Ambrose Bierce

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

Iain Banks

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

Herman Melville

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

Melanie Laurent

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Tom Wolfe

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Johnny Depp

In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.

John C. Granville