The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say

I learned from Bruce Lee, Be like water and Gil Grissom from CSI, Be like sponge.

James Dye

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

William Shakespeare

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

Chloe Sevigny

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

Oriana Fallaci

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

Terry Pratchett

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

Erich von Stroheim

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

Oscar Wilde

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

George Orwell

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Marvin Gaye

Smile, damn it !! Smile.

Dame Sybil Hathaway

I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men and women being pecked to death by predatory birds. The birds are invisible - at least until a psychiatrist who is good, or lucky, or both, sprays them with his version of Luminol and shines the right light on them - but they are nevertheless very real. The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands . . . and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh.

Stephen King

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.