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

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Anxiety English Eyes Satisfaction Want

Maybe if they all could he combined – art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.

Stephen Sprouse

Art Fashion Favorite

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Gloria Steinem

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

Duncan Sheik

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Thomas Hardy

Age Job Men Old Performance Value

We undress men and women, we don’t dress them any more.

Pierre Cardin

Dress Men Women

Go, and never darken my towels again.

Groucho Marx

I have amply provided for my son during my lifetime.

William S. Hart

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Graham Greene

Fear Madness Therapy Wonder Writing

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Oswald Spengler

Capitalism Nothing Socialism

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Edith Sitwell

Hobbies Listening Music Reading Silence

After you date a player or two it’s nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic.

Angie Martinez

So long as you’ve got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don’t really have to care what everyone else thinks.

Gail Porter

Attitude Care Friends Positive

Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn’t want to sell any stock.

Christie Hefner

People Taxes Want

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Herman Hesse

Italy Months Travel Years

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

Ally Sheedy

Acting Character Help Job

It’s a moment that I’m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

Andrew Wyeth

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I’d love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

Philip Emeagwali

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

John McCrae

Larks Poppies Singing Sky

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Samuel Butler

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Anatole France

Harmony Man Universe

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry B. Adams

Education Facts Ignorance Nothing

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Arthur Ashe

Key Preparation Self Success

I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they’re not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don’t care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I’m investing enough into it.

Sam Worthington

Care People Public Work Worth

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.

Simon Newcomb

Clouds Disappointment Sense Sight World

Serve the dinner backward, do anything – but for goodness sake, do something weird.

Elsa Maxwell

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

Will McDonough

You can be young and still have views and opinions.

Joanna Noelle Levesque

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Beverly Sills

The Britney Spears fans aren’t going to dig us.

Dustin Diamond

You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I’m glad. It’s going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I’m right in style.

Faye Dunaway

Now Right Style Time

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

John Turturro

It was comical because you’re at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.

Ryan Reynolds

I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever.

Tom Felton

I don’t think I’m going to do any good work this morning.

David O. Selznick

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Happiness Man Wealth

Looking good is the best revenge.

Ivana Trump

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

James Larkin

Hope Inspiration Now

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Thomas More

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

Chaim Potok

Discovery Exploration Want Writing

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I’m not an optimist. I’m a realist… or maybe even a pessimist.

Clay Aiken

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

Antonio Tabucchi

First Forget History People War World World war

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

James Bovard

Class Friends People Politicians Power

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don’t have any.

Jane Russell

What I’m dealing with is so vast and great that it can’t be called the truth. It’s above the truth.

Sun Ra

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Duke Ellington

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

Alphonso Jackson

Job Law School Years

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Georg C. Lichtenberg