What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

C.S. Lewis

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

Greg Louganis

To get something different, you must do something different.

Stephen Richards

Once a person says, This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do, it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

David Viscott

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.

Steve Irwin

Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar.

George Lundberg

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Mahatma Gandhi

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

Nicholas Boileau

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Ben Elton

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

Dominic West

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

H. L. Mencken

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Saul Steinberg