I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.

In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.

Bertrand Russell

The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

Tom Cochrane

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Ambrose Bierce

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Helen Keller

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Benjamin Franklin

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Rupert Brooke

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

William Hazlitt

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

Milton Berle

Our account does not rob mathematicians of their science, by disproving the actual existence of the infinite in the direction of increase, in the sense of the untraceable. In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. They postula

Aristotle

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.

Alan Ladd