With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.

It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.

John Updike

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Anon.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Warren Bennis

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

John Atkinson

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

Sonia Braga

I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

Phillip C. McGraw

Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.

David Sedaris

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

John Stuart Mill

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

Aristotle