If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

Ambrose Bierce

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

Catherine Deneuve

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

George Weigel

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

Alan Cumming

You're stubborn- anyone ever tell you that before?

Carrie Ryan

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Irving Babbitt

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Paula Poundstone

Group sex are you kidding I had group sex My wife screwed in front of the jury.

Rodney Dangerfield

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Bertrand Russell

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Virginia Woolf

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt