Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

All which tends not to the sole end is the type of it. For since there is only one end, all which does not lead to it in express terms is figurative.

Blaise Pascal

The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another

George Eliot

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Lily Tomlin

I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know, most of the time when something's a big deal for us, it's only become a big deal in the space between our ears.

Gillian Anderson

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

Elie Tahari

The strength of America is not in Washington.

J. C. Watts

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Sydney Pollack

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

Janelle Monae

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism....

Albert Einstein

Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.

Helen Fielding

Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

Carl Sagan

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Voltaire