The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Tom Wolfe

Being Belief Conviction Existence Fact Life Loneliness Men Now

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

Bill Bruford

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

James Jeans

Space Stars Will

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.

Roger Mahony

Church Law People

I don’t keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

Donna Summer

I started promoting clubs when I was 15. 1 was doing what is considered the normal collegiate stuff when I was a lot younger. I was holding my own, but doing a lot of crazy things.

Brian Austin Green

I don’t like telling people where I stand on this, although I’m surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I’m pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let’s the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, it’s alright he’s pro-choice then I can enjoy this.

Todd Solondz

People Relax Wonders

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It’s not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

Colin Firth

Bible Idea Missionaries People

We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.

Bob Woodward

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

Blaise Pascal

Duty End God May Providence Trust Truth

As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60’s and 70’s Italian and Spanish Horror films.

Johnny Ramone

Favorite Film Hollywood Horror

A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.

Ruggiero Ricci

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel I’ve lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.

Moshe Dayan

I was poor. When you’re poor you work, and when you’re rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

Imogen Cunningham

Being People Poor Work

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

Greg Lake

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

Jean Harris

Three simple words – freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

Charles Kennedy

Democrats Freedom Honesty Justice Liberal Words

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I’ve had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn’t been dull; I’ve been the Hiroshima of love.

Sylvester Stallone

Life Love Memories Sons

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Books God Prayer Teaching Truth Wisdom

People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.

Cesar Romero

Fact Nothing People Talent Time Tribute Trying

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

Anthony Quinn

Freedom Painting

I don’t want to know about my biggest idols. I don’t want to read their autobiographies, I don’t want to find out what they’re really like.

Meg White

Action based only on principles isn’t always good even if it feels good.

John Chancellor

Action Principles

What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.

Paul Prudhomme

Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.

Grace Napolitano

I began with track and field because this is what I know.

Sergei Bubka

We’ve not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can’t trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I’m much more conservative with money than George Bush is.

Howard Dean

Balance Conservative Money President Republican Republicans Right Trust Years

There are certain times I don’t want my picture taken. If my wife’s stepping out of a car and it looks like it’s going to come out an indecent picture, don’t I have a right to object?

Bobby Darin

Car Right Want Wife

I will be a historical painter.

William Allan

There aren’t any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you’re just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

Guy Clark

Rules Songs Writing

They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I certainly wasn’t able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me – I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

Martin Scorsese

Balance Growing up People Right Time Violence

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

Michael Shermer

Meaning Morality Motivation Myths

Never mind a world that can’t see past brutality.

Ric Ocasek

Mind Past World

They come together like the Coroner’s Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

William Congreve

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Pete Sampras

Difference Play

Tolerance always has limits – it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

Sidney Hook

Limits Tolerance

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Theodore Roosevelt

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

Taylor Caldwell

Being Fortune Living Sleep

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

Edward Gibbon

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.

Leo Ornstein

Language Music Today Value

I don’t believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

Ann Landers

Collecting is my passion.

Ursula Andress

Writing, I’m convinced, should be a subversive activity – frowned on by the authorities – and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Dan Simmons

Common sense Writing

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

Leslie Charteris

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I’ve done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

Don Shula

Ability Coach Coaching Hope Winning Years

At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

Ted Rall

American Bosses Pretty Workers

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Gustav Mahler

Delusion Superficiality Vanity

One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions – to a different content – but in in my case it is all one.

Alva Noto

I’ve been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

Craig McCracken