I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

If my dream comes true, Is truth then only a dream?

Rob Bignell

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Edwin Forrest

My teachers helped guide and motivate me but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

Joseph Stiglitz

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

Bell Hooks

I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years, and eight albums, you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.

Katherine Jenkins

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

John Harington

You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.

Harriet Evans

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

Steve Albini

Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Eugene Ionesco

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

Greg Kinnear

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Joe Baca

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe