Best Quotes Around the World

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

Everything popular is wrong.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.

God helps those who help themselves.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

I do think we’re an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.

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

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

All art is but imitation of nature.

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don’t really think that hard.

Babies don’t need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach… it pisses me off! I’ll go over to a little baby and say ‚What are you doing here? You haven’t worked a day in your life!‘

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

I’m a painter in sound.