It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Oscar Wilde

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Baltasar Gracian

Vikendom ustajem ranije da mi duze traje.

Ja

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

Lynda Barry

For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.

Marshall McLuhan

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

Charles Baudelaire

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

Douglas Adams

Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you -- can you really be in love with James?

Jane Austen

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Ayrton Senna

When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acto

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times.There is no primary or authoritative source for this in Twain's known writings or speeches.

Mark Twain, attibuted

Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.

Tricia Helfer