I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

Kenneth Tynan

He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.

George Herbert Walker

Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne.

William Shakespeare

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.

Virginia Woolf

Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

William Shakespeare

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Simone Weil

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time

Virginia Woolf

And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.

Leonard Cohen

nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science.

Yann Martel

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Harry S Truman

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

Raymond Carver