In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Samuel Johnson

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

Nicole Kidman

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

Edwin Way Teale

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

Elizabeth Taylor

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

Djuna Barnes

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

Gus Van Sant

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

Sergio Aragones

Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a champion. So pure was this motive, so unfrocked with anything that his worst enemies could find, except the mildest and most excusable, a personal vanity, practically the minimum to be human, that in a sense his adventure is that of humanity itself. In Wilson, the whole of mankind breaks camp, sets out from home and wrestles with the universe and its gods.

William Bolitho

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

Jennifer Aniston

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Joseph Conrad

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

Rumi

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Robert Hughes