I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.

Henry David Thoreau

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

Benjamin Franklin

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Douglas Adams

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Scottish Proverb

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

Bobby Darin

Voi rakkaanisydän on kylmäja sammalta käteni kasvaaMinun reiteni mullassa hajoovat maaksiJa haudalla risti jo lahona on.Olen maa.Olen maa johon tahdot.

Timo K. Mukka

I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

John Adams

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

Ernest Hemingway

I travel a lot I hate having my life disrupted by routine.

Caskie Stinnett

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard.

Rona Jaffe

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal