I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

Mark Ruffalo

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Bette Davis

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

Sir Roger L'Estrange

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

Isaac Newton

Night clubs are where Americans learn the laws of motion.

Bauvard

You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.

Hank Azaria

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Alan Alda

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.(translated 1951)

Emile Durkheim, Suicide, bk. 2,

Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done.

R.P.T. (Robert Peter Tristram) C

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Anthony Robbins

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Theodore Roosevelt

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow