Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Aldous Huxley

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

C.S. Lewis

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

Cameron Crowe

You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you cant fool all of the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

Michelle Pfeiffer

A play visibly represents pure existing.

Thornton Wilder

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.

Tryon Edwards

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...

C.S. Lewis

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

David Bowie

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Don Marquis

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

Stephen King