His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Virginia Woolf

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

Lily Collins

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

Broderick Crawford

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes

Victor Hugo

Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.

Angela Lambert

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Mark Twain

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Can I really take God at his word?

K Howard Joslin

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Ayrton Senna

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose,' man?'

Kenny Wormald

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

Lady Gaga