When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Thomas Love Peacock

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

Gus Van Sant

All my life I've learned to suffer in silence.

Paulo Coelho

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

Eric Hoffer

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

Ringo Starr

I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'

Demetri Martin

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

Cate Blanchett

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime for her more than she is to me?

Michel de Montaigne

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Erykah Badu

... it's always best to tell the truth.

Rudyard Kipling

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

Dr. Dre

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

William Pitt