I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Rose Macaulay

I stuck my head out the window and got arrested for mooning.

Rodney Dangerfield

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Abraham Lincoln

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

George Orwell

The thing that goes the farthest

Wilbur D. Nesbit

Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.

Sarah Polley

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.

Vincent Bugliosi

If I told you that I wanted to spend my days and nights with you, live with you, as my partner, because out there, in Hell, I realised that you mean the world to me? That you are my sanity, my laughter, my lust, my love, my comfort, my day and my night, my heat and cold and everything? If I told you that, would you think that translates to 'convenient'?

Marquesate

Don't give up your dreams.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Norman Mailer, The Deer Park