I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

William Shakespeare

We don't make music - it makes us.

David Byrne

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

Ricki Lake

I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Alfred Hitchcock

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

Wendy Liebman

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

Martin Heidegger

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Natalie Clifford Barney

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

Annette Funicello

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Richard Powers

a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Mark Twain

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Samuel Johnson