Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

Michael Ignatieff

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

Jeff Bridges

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

Rick Springfield

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Marilyn Monroe

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises -- of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.

Eugene Ionesco

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

Albert Einstein

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Ronald Segal

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

Michael Apted

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Camille Desmoulins

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Ernest Hemingway

He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

Lisa See