I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guil

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Kenneth Tynan

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

Quentin Crisp

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Francis Bacon

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

Lauryn Hill

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

Teri Garr

Eat, drink, and love; the rest's not worth a fillip.

Lord Byron

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Anthony Hope

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Douglas Horton

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

Henry A. Wallace

Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.

Josh Billings