One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John Henry Newman

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out.

Jarvis Cocker

All art is immoral.

Oscar Wilde

The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

Lewis H. Lapham

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Scottish Proverb

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Charles Eames

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.

Lord Mansfield

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

Phil Collen

Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

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I never saw a wild thingsorry for itself;A small bird will drop frozen dead from a boughwithout ever having felt sorry for itself.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Henry Ford