Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Imagination comes of not having things.

LeRoy Neiman

Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet.

Russell Brand

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

Benjamin Franklin

A bit beyond perception's reach I sometimes believe I see that Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.

Piet Hein

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Proverb

'A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I'm like, W'hoa, I'm feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!'

Booboo Stewart

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

John Shelton Reed

Nothing recedes like success.

Walter Winchell

Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness

Friedrich Nietzsche

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Mark Twain

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

Wilson Mizner

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

Anthony Kiedis