I like a man who’s good, but not too good – for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
MAE WESTThere are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man’s unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.
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If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?
GALEN -
I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
AI WEIWEI -
From day one when you’re singing, you’re dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.
BRETT ELDREDGE -
You could have shook my whole world luckily I became aware, and I took a turn.
EMMA SCHIPPERS -
I think comedy is a bit more international than people credit. I happily watch lots of American shows and American comedy films. If I did a list of the top 10 comedy films in Britain, there’s no sense that it would probably be different than yours.
DAVID WALLIAMS -
Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don’t know whether I’m alive or whether I died. I wasn’t afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn’t feel fear. But I am afraid. I don’t understand why.
ANDY WARHOL -
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
PETER DRUCKER -
I believe in destiny. I believe destiny opens doors for you, but it’s up to you to walk through them.
ZAC EFRON -
At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
AL YANKOVIC -
Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
AGNES REPPLIER -
It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
BYRON KATIE -
I don’t make records that way, where I’m trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it’s just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.
BLACK FRANCIS -
Live your life not celebrating victories but overcoming defeats.
CHE GUEVARA -
It is not a question of whether you ‘have what it takes,’ but of whether you take the gifts you have – they are plenteous – and share them with all the world.
NEALE DONALD WALSCH -
Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, ‘This is the best I’m ever going to look, the best I’m ever going to feel, the best I’m ever going to do,’ and it ain’t that great?
BILLY CRYSTAL






