When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.

Duke of Wellington Arthur Welles

There is always room at the top.

Daniel Webster

if there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God

Saint Augustine

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

Alva Johnson

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of

Northrop Frye

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

Benjamin Spock

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

Mark Twain

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

S. C. Hall

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

Joan Didion

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.

Billy Tauzin

I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much.

Jonah Hill

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Voltaire