The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

The sign of a truly totalitarian culture is that important truths simply lack cognitive meaning and are interpretable only at the level of Fuck You, so they can then elicit a perfectly predictable torrent of abuse in response. We've long ago reached that level.

Noam Chomsky

A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

William Booth

If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.

Qur'an

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

Jimmy Connors

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

John Betjeman

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

Kristen Stewart

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

Hugh Jackman

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Robin Tunney

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

Rosanne Cash

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

Samuel Johnson

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Germaine De Stael

You can't trust the internet.

Nicolette Sheridan