As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away. More Ralph Fiennes
Just as Marx used to say about the French 'Marxists' of the late seventies: 'All I know is that I am not a Marxist'. More Markus Persson
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions? More Jackie Mason
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. More Susan Sontag
You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV. More Nicole Kidman
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. More John Kenneth Galbraith
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile. More Edward Hoagland
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. More Pier-Joseph PROUDHON
For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude. More Clarence E. Hodges
The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life. More Sir Richard Steele
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God. More Daniel Webster
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name. More Vachel Lindsay
Ron Albertson: Let me ask you something. You're a medical man.
Dr. Allan Pearl: Yes.
Ron Albertson: Uh... I wanna ask you something... if you... you...
[stands up, prepares to drop trousers]
Dr. Allan Pearl: [Horrified] Oh!
Ron Albertson: No, I, I...
Dr. Allan Pearl: Oh, for heaven's sake, no, noooooo...
Ron Albertson: Look, no please, I just want...
Dr. Allan Pearl: No!
Mrs. Allan Pearl: You don't have to do that...
Ron Albertson: Doctor, please...
Dr. Allan Pearl: Mmmmmedicine Man not go near Dances With Stumpy! Noooo! More Movie: Waiting for Guffman [1996] Movie: Waiting for Guffman [1996]
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. More Sandara Carey
If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see. More Richard Martin Stern
They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth . . . I mean, where were they gonna tape it? More Brendan Fraser
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. More Mary Hemingway
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. More Ezra Pound
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error. More Walter Lippmann
If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself. More August Heckscher