I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.

Jack White

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Lord Chesterfield, "Letter to hi

I have an amazing relationship with food.

Katharine McPhee

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Oliver Goldsmith

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Calvin Coolidge

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

Lady Gaga

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.

Courtney Love

We could look at the side of wonder.

Melina Marchetta

“ ‘As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says ‘you are nothing,’ I will be a writer.’”

Hunter S. Thompson

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Johann Georg Zimmermann