From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess

Henry Louis Mencken

My workout regimen at the moment is nonexistent. I wake up in the morning and brush my teeth. My toothbrush and deodorant are my only dumbbells. That's about it.

Josh Bowman

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot

The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.

Rush Limbaugh

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

Marcel Proust

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Pablo Picasso

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

Tom Hooper

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

F. L. Lucan

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Benjamin Disraeli

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

William Shakespeare

I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.

Christian Bale