People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

He that seeks trouble never misses.

English Proverb

Women are women, and hurray for that.

John Galliano

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

Bill Scott

You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

James Mcneill Whistler

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

Milan Kundera

And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Clint Eastwood

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment

Friedrich Nietzsche

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

Doug Coupland

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Jean Baudrillard

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Raymond Chandler