It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Simone Weil

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

Aldous Huxley

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism

George Orwell

Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.

J. A. Baker

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.

Jamie Lee Curtis

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

Joaquin Phoenix

At least at times of loss, we are reminded of our priorities, of our many blessings. In times of gain, we can so often lose our way.

Mindy Starns Clark

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

Jane Austen

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

Peter Davison

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

Steve Forbes