I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

David Bowie

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Sir Walter Scott

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Honore de Balzac

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

Kathryn Bigelow

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

LaoTzu

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

Edward Hoagland

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

Marlo Thomas

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

Henry Fonda

I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.

Wilfred Owen

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I

Theodore White

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

Roy Rogers