People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert J. Ringer

Love People Reality Truth Want

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

Ann Macbeth

Film Risk World

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

John Singer Sargent

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

John Randolph

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

Minoru Yamasaki

I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn’t pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn’t pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.

Allan Sherman

He’s about as predictable as a Wasp on speed.

Sid Waddell

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don’t seat according to protocol. I don’t invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

Sally Quinn

Charity Events Open People Power

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Henry Ward Beecher

Promise Success

Isn’t history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Emile M. Cioran

Boredom Fear History Result

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

Ludwig Quidde

Fight Law Order Success Understanding Will

If you’re a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.

Eric Braeden

Children Trying

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Karen Horney

Men Psychology Women

I think it’s a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that’s a march to folly.

Anna Eshoo

Congress Country Folly Idea Independence March Policy Will World

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

Chuck Palahniuk

Love People Risk

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I’ll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

Jim Carrey

Being Day Extremes Months

It is not that I don’t like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

Vince Gill

Country Country music Love Music Success

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

Alexander Herzen

Civilization First Order Slavery

It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

Car Driving Night

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory.

Andre Breton

Dreams Events Importance Man Memory Waking

Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.

Alcee Hastings

Dignity Followers Peace People Respect Tolerance Values

So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.

Bert Campaneris

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that’s never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Love Movies Work

Most TV shows don’t reward you for paying attention.

Matt Groening

Attention Reward

I was growing up in the 50’s and 60’s. Back then they didn’t even know what dyslexia was.

Bruce Jenner

These wrestlers aren’t organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There’s a lot of drama there.

Darren Aronofsky

Drama Garden Running Today Years

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I’ve found it hard to read as much as I’d like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.

Louise Brown

Children Opportunity Pets Reason Work

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

Judy Collins

I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.

Calvin Klein

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

Richard Roxburgh

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

Mira Sorvino

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it’s just one mistake.

Brian Boitano

Mistake People Press

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

Olympia Dukakis

Energy Experience God

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

James D. Watson

Freedom Pressure

You’ve got to write for your audience.

John Ratzenberger

It’s often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that’s a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

L. Neil Smith

First Lie Reality Time Truth War

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

Doug Coupland

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius

Events Sight Time Will

When I was about, I’d say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets… So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.

Michelle Rodriguez

Old Secrets Years

If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.

Richard Stallman

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good – pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A’s.

Steve Case

In art economy is always beauty.

Henry James

Art Beauty Economy

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.

Joan Jett

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.

Sandra Cisneros

Character Life Time Writing Years

No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side.

Jascha Heifetz

Argument People

The good thing about Broadway is that you don’t have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.

Seth MacFarlane

I wouldn’t dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

Rod Taylor

Dream Friends Selling Work

The information is in the people, not in your head.

Edward T. Hall

Information People

My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

Paul Getty

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they’re better off working.

John Engler

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Benjamin Haydon