The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

Steven Wright

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at theroulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Steven Wright

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

Marilyn Manson

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Harriet Tubman

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

Edward Norton

I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Sigmund Freud

We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.

Paulo Coelho

I believe only in art and failure.

Jane Rule

I would forget it fain,But oh, it presses to my memory,Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners' minds.*I would be glad to forget about it, but it weighs on my memory like sins linger in guilty minds.*

William Shakespeare

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

Michael Morpurgo

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

Henry Fielding