Life is a bliss only if you carefully understand it.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception

Friedrich Nietzsche

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

Mia Maestro

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Marshall McLuhan

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

Dougray Scott

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

David Frum

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

Thomas Frank

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

Daniel Boone

[I]m Hain des Tempels und im Schatten der Zitadelle habe ich die Freiesten unter euch ihre Freiheit als Joch und Handschellen tragen sehen.

Kahlil Gibran

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Alvin Toffler

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

JeanLuc Godard

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Edward Hopper

My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.

Judy Johnson