Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

Willie Shoemaker

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

Maria Bartiromo

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

Javier Bardem

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

George Santayana

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

Richard Livingstone

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Andrew Motion

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

William James

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.

Paz de la Huerta

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Robert Louis Stevenson