If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

Ian Mcewan

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Jos

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Benjamin Franklin

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

Karl Lagerfeld

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

David Bowie

If the thought enunciates an object as a truth, it is only as a challenge to this object's own self-fulfillment.

Jean Baudrillard

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

Jerry O'Connell

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

Groucho Marx

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Jack Kemp

Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Ernest Renan

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

Meryl Streep