When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

H. L. Mencken

And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.

Jane Austen

If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.

Sri Chinmoy

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

Terry Tempest Williams

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Collis P. Huntingdon

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

Stanley Baldwin

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

Violet Bonham Carter

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

David Ogden Stiers

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

Tracey Ullman

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

Oliver Reed