The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything -- in other words, utter savages.

Leo Tolstoy

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous.

Dave Attell

This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.

Daniel Handler

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Harold Rosenberg

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Ahmet Zappa

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

Pasquier Quesnel

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

Source Unknown

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

Sam Mendes

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Edward Judson

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Oscar Wilde