The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don’t know his past; you just know what his plans are.

I am a fan of the ‚Rocky‘ films, and ‚Rocky 4‘ is my favourite. I also like ‚The Warriors.‘

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

I love the Sex Pistols. I’m a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They’re cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous – that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.

A good song never gets old.

I was adored once too.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

Someone did a graphic of me in my jersey, and Jordan, they dubbed him guarding me, and Kanye’s face was on both of us. That’s my favorite meme of all time – or so far to-date. I’m gonna have to get that blown up on my wall or something.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama’s favorite actors.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

They say miracles are past.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.