Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another.

Sir John Vanbrugh

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.

Diane Lane

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

Orson Welles

I broke my arm trying to fold a bed. It wasn't the kind that folds.

Steven Wright

The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.

João Magueijo

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

Erich Fromm

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

Rudyard Kipling

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

Oscar Wilde

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...reading is the creative center of a writer's life...you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Stephen King

Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.

Don Hays

While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

James Joyce