Punctuality is the thief of time. Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have Something sensational to read in the train.

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.http://www.barnard.edu/amstud/resources/strenuous/trletter.htm

Theodore Roosevelt, from a lette

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

Conan O'Brien

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

George William Curtis

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

Josh Radnor

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Dame Edith Sitwell

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Fay Weldon

The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

Albert Camus

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

Antonio Banderas

I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away.

Jared Leto

Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

Brit Marling

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.

William Blake

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Heywood Broun