Best Quotes Around the World

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

Life must be lived as play.

I don’t think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it’s very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people ‚over the Internet.‘

Laughter is America’s most important export.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology – looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

It is always your next move.

I’m filthy rich!

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

I’m tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro – that’s the Scotch-Irish part.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.