If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

Jared Harris

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

Niklaus Wirth

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Eminem

Order is power.

Henri Frederic Amiel

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Cesare Pavese

It's embarrassing to be human.

Kurt Vonnegut

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

Friedrich Engels

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Rebecca West

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Søren Kierkegaard

The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.

Camille Paglia