I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

Merrill Markoe

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Plato

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

Maurice Jarre

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

Victoria Beckham

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

Alan Dershowitz

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Stanislaw Lec

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.

H.B. Bolton

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Orson Scott Card

Triune, shaping, restless power, Life-flow from life's natal hour, No music chords are in thy sound; By some thou'rt but a rattle found; Yet, without thy ceaseless motion, To ice would turn their dead devotion.

Margaret Fuller