But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

twice I have lived forever in a smile

E.E. Cummings

You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.

William Hogarth

I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

Greta Garbo

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

John F. Kennedy

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Vincent Van Gogh

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

Christopher Hitchens

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

Bryan Cranston

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.

Jean-Baptiste Say

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

George Bernard Shaw