I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joseph Joubert

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.

King James I

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

Thomas Friedman

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

Maynard James Keenan

It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

Gavin DeGraw

Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.

William Shakespeare

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

H. L. Mencken

You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in life despite challenging circumstances. It's all in how you think about it.

Kristi Bowman

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

William Arthur Ward

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Ghose Aurobindo