The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails -- aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.

Henry David Thoreau

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

Maggie Q

It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.

Mitt Romney

The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies.

R. A. Pinker

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Bertolt Brecht

I don't know what weapons will be used in world war three, but in world war four people will use sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Jane Yolen

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Madeleine Albright

We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

Moon Unit Zappa

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

Richard Lugar

Sometimes you need to get lost in order to find yourself.

Yossi Ghinsberg

Fate keeps on happening.

Anita Loos