The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

Alain Prost

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

Morgan Freeman

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

David Hume

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate ?

Albert Camus

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

Brian Aldiss

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

B. C. Forbes

There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.

John Steinbeck

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

Mitch Hedberg

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Jack Nicholson