I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Walter Bagehot

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Horace

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

George Bernard Shaw

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

Jason Reitman

You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

Aldous Huxley

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

Stephen King

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Henry Ward Beecher

The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.

Major Owens

It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

Steve Jobs

I drink to make other people interesting.

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When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

Oliver Goldsmith