People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

Franco Zeffirelli

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.

Josh Lucas

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

Marguerite Duras

Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.

Vinoba Bhave

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

George Washington

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

Lenny Kravitz

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

Carly Rae Jepsen

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

Baltasar Gracian

It ain't over 'till it's over.

Yogi Berra

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

John Cusack