Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

Respect and fear are two different things.

Jane Smiley

All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.

Thomas E. Lawrence

Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley

If there is anything I've learned from Linux, it's that projects have a life of their own, and you should not try to enforce your vision too strongly on them.

Linus Torvalds

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

William Shatner

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only , and no knowing.

Aidan Chambers

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

Mel Brooks

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

Rodney Atkins

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

H. L. Mencken

When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover

Michael Drayton

I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.

Ellen Burstyn