It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

Louis C. K.

The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.

James Baldwin

People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

Sally Hawkins

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

Ben Stiller

The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it.

Blaise Pascal

The sacred lamp of dayNow dipt in western clouds his parting day.

William Falconer, The Shipwreck

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

Evelyn Waugh

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

Marissa Mayer

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine

Plato

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

Cassandra Peterson

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

Gertrude Stein

An autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Barbara G. Harris