What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.

Kristen Wiig

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

Vivienne Westwood

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

Edward W. Howe

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Andre Malraux

Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or trying on other people's laundry. I got into it originally while trying to break an addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth.

Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

Henry Ward Beecher

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Marguerite Duras

Truth may have been found but might never be known.

Kedar Joshi

The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Richard Livingstone

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Sir Richard Steele

What this country needs is more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right direction more to get into the thick of things, fewer to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault more to point out what's right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on what's wrong with it and more who are interested in lighting candles, and fewer who blow them out.

Father James Keller

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

Clint Eastwood