It's funny to be a critic.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Wallace Stevens

I'm just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that's the most important message.

Pharrell Williams

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Ambrose Bierce

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Mahatma Gandhi

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

Charles Stanley

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

Steve Martin

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Jos

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Jean Rostand

As tempting as it seems to wear tennis shoes with your tux, don't do it. I think it looks ridiculous. If you're 14 years old, maybe give it a shot. In general, don't portray anything that says 'I'm too cool and I don't care.'

Paul Feig

I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect, I think he is a theatrical whore of the first quality.

Sir Peter Hall

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jesse Jackson

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

Julius Erving