The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

Mark Twain

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

Plato

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Katharine Hepburn

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

Anon.

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Maggie Kuhn

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

All human life can be found in an airport.

David Walliams

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

Jawaharlal Nehru

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Les Claypool

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

Steve Perry