I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Gore Vidal

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

J. K. Rowling

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

Elvis Presley

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

George Bernard Shaw

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

Mercy Otis Warren

I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

Matthew Barney

No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.

Sigmund Freud

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so.

Ronald Reagan

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

Angelina Jolie

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

Bill Veeck

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.

James Burgh

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Hilaire Belloc