God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

I have the ’77 Million Paintings‘ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‚God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!‘ And that’s a real thrill.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don’t take themselves too seriously.

Music is like film to me.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn’t the only video service, but I think it’s the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that’s a completely different kind of content.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I’m gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Mine is better than ours.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone – both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.