I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

Kurt Vonnegut

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

William Hazlitt

Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Felix Adler

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Bertrand Russell

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

Ethan Coen

I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

Giada De Laurentiis

The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.

Big Boi

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Bob Marley

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.

Henry Villard

I praise loudly, I blame softly.

Catherine II of Russia

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

Abraham Lincoln

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. -- The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Ludwig Wittgenstein