If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Max Lerner

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

Gertrude Jekyll

To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.

Ariel Sharon

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Will Rogers

Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.

William O. Douglas

There are only two ways to get a new customer: 1. solicit a new customer any way you can. 2. Take good care of your present customers, so they don't become someone else's new customers.

Ed Zeitz

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Desmond Tutu

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Alan Rickman

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

Francis Picabia

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

William S. Burroughs

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

William Frederick Book

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.

Tony Kushner