I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

Sloane Crosley

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.

Jean Anouilh

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death

Benjamin Franklin

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Thomas Keneally

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

Fran Lebowitz

I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.

Oded Fehr

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

George Farquhar

The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;

Chinese Proverb

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

Jules Feiffer

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

John Calvin

I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.

Michael Connelly

When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.

Albert Finney