I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.

Mark Twain

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

Jim Brown

Happiness hates the timid! So does science!

Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlud

Money and religion are perfect alloy.

Toba Beta

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

Robert Moog

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Horace

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Thomas Fuller

I try to give positive energy in all my shows.

Curtis Jones

Tess? A soft voice at the door; she looked up and saw Will there, silhouetted in the light from the corridor.

Cassandra Clare

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

Anton Yelchin

In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.

Fran Lebowitz

Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.

Camille Anna Paglia