Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Robert Frost

I wrote a few children's books... Not on purpose.

Steven Wright

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.

Mark Twain

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

Ann Patchett

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

Quentin Tarantino

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Bertolt Brecht

I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.

Melanie Roach

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company

Samuel Johnson

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

Christopher Hitchens

President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame.

Glenn Hubbard

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

Bob Geldof