My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

John Cleese

It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow.

James Madison

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

David Hume

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Barbara Sher

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

Clint Eastwood

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

Andre Breton

I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.

Jane Campion

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.

Bill Pullman

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

Milan Kundera

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

Dave Navarro

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

Penelope Cruz

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

Damon Albarn