The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting -- the war and the revolution -- and the character of the accused -- revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power -- you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.

Leon Trotsky

Ever notice that people never say It's only a game when they're winning?

Ivern Ball

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

Jean-Louis Barrault

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Andrew Matthews

I love acting.

Shaun White

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Pablo Casals

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

Stephen King

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Leo Tolstoy

It's amazing how good getting up and moving makes you feel.

Paula Deen

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

David O. Selznick

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong

Thomas Jefferson

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse