There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhy would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.
Erma BombeckIf anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.
Isaac NewtonIt is easier to be critical than correct.
Benjamin DisraeliDomestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. KennedyIf the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret AtwoodIn the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.
Noam ChomskyPolitical necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
George Bernard ShawThe difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Alexander PopeI have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
Edgar Allan PoeI do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.
Angelina JolieFame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Jean-Jacques RousseauEvery formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma GandhiThe difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
Charles BukowskiEverything I learned I learned from the movies.
Audrey HepburnIndustry need not wish.
Benjamin FranklinHis lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody AllenYou see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.
Paul AusterIf you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
Clint EastwoodTo insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Albert CamusYou’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard ShawI believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
Hunter S. ThompsonMy folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
John WayneThe fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand RussellIf I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.
Stephen HawkingLet blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Warren BuffettWhere every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
William ShakespeareThe opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. MenckenSee first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
Douglas AdamsIn the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
Brian EnoIt is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
Virginia WoolfIf you judge, investigate.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaYou just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘
RihannaOur envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HeraclitusIt would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.
Anthony BourdainIn our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George OrwellAtoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.
Richard P. FeynmanThere are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HippocratesPolitically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerOver grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George WashingtonA president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.
Henry KissingerChristianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.
John LennonPolitics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald ReaganStupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan PoeIntellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
Noam ChomskyNo one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.
Terry PratchettBetter a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
ConfuciusWhen you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.
Kevin HartThe only film I’ve enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in ‚The Wrestler.‘
Dwayne JohnsonThe intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
Bill GatesWe never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William JamesEach generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George OrwellI love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.
Matthew McConaugheyI’m not a macroeconomics person.
Bill GatesI’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.
Denzel WashingtonI guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.
Joe BidenGreat and good are seldom the same man.
Winston ChurchillPresident Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
Clint EastwoodHow happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander PopeA critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
Oscar Wilde