Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.

Selma Blair

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy

Prophecy today is hardly the romantic business that it used to be. The old tools of the trade, like the sword, the hair shirt, and the long fast in the wilderness, have given way to more contemporary, mundane instruments of doom --the book, the picket and the petition, the sit-in at City Hall.

Jane Kramer

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Rebecca West

Prayer is a groan.

St. Jerome

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

Quentin Crisp

God's retirement plan is out of this world

Source Unknown

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Joseph Joubert

It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy.

Lucy Alibar

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

Albert Einstein

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Arnold Bennett