Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace

Cassandra Clare

If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.

Ethan Hawke

The vocabulary of endearment, complaint, and abuse, provides, I think, almost the only specimens of words that are purely emotional, words from which all imaginative or conceptual content has vanished, so that they have no function at all but to express or stimulate emotion, or both. And an examination of them soon convinces us that in them we see language at its least linguistic. We have come to the frontier between language and inarticulate vocal sounds. And at that frontier we find a two-way traffic going on.

C.S. Lewis

And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (How to Write with Style. Essay, 1985)

Kurt Vonnegut

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

Aulis Sallinen

Wise men still seek Him today.

Dan Bell

There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.

Moli

How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.

Sa'di

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Jose Marti

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

Roger Ebert

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Mason Cooley