I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.

Seann William Scott

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

Claude Bernard

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

Jamie Bell

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

Havelock Ellis

Writers were blessed stenographers taking divine dictation.

Stephen King

Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements;... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

Alfred North Whitehead

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

George Santayana

I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

Confucius

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

Barack Obama

All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

George Orwell

I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come across many of them, and anyhow it must be a hard vocation. That's why I decided to take, in every predicament, the victim's side, so as to reduce the damage done. Among them I can at least try to discover how on attains to the third category; in other words, to peace.

Albert Camus