The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Albert Einstein

Pig, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

Ambrose Bierce

Because dreams are the difference between living...and existing...

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert Gyorgyi

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

Scott Caan

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Charles Chaplin

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Mary Kay Ash

You die in the middle of your life.

John Green

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

J. G. Ballard

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

Francesca Annis

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

Helena Bonham Carter