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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.
— Roy Lichtenstein
Tags: believe, i-am, you, work
I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Tags: humor
The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.
— Bret Easton Ellis Imperial Bedrooms
Tags: writing, fiction, adaptations
As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me.
— Nicolas Cage
Tags: friends, rider, people, fly, me
I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
— Michael Caine
Tags: feel, look, you, knowledge
Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, he poured a small amount of oleic acid, a natural surfactant which tends to form a dense film at the water-air interface.
— Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Tags: experiment, he, small, beautiful
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.
— Milton Friedman
Tags: think, internet, government, you
I don't believe in being vengeful or trying to send a message to someone. You waste your energy that way.
— Ciara
Tags: way, energy, believe, you
Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.
— Ewan McGregor
Tags: sorry, cell-phone, parenting, you
A lifetime single worker really gets a horrid deal from Social Security. The return on average is less than 0.5 percent. These workers would be nearly better off stuffing their payroll tax dollars under a mattress.
— Stephen Moore
Tags: than, single, security, better
I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
— Uzo Aduba
Tags: meet, confident, dead, fall
In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.
— Annie Lennox
Tags: you, music, work, best
When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.'
— Joel A. Barker
Tags: most, first, us, survival
Study nature, not books.
— Louis Agassiz
Tags: books, study, nature
The way 'star' used to be reserved for a small number of people, and when the star category became so vast, they came up with 'superstar,' and then they came up with 'megastar.'
— Tom Stoppard
Tags: up, small, way, people
I am actually a very unspeaking person. I'm not really good in social situations. People expect me to be more outgoing. I don't know why. They think I have this kind of assurance.
— Charlotte Rampling
Tags: i-am, people, me, good
Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
Tags: human-rights, human, only, real, villain
I would not call Himmanshoo a good husband, but I would call him my best friend and a great companion. Personally, my mom and my family say that I am very lucky to have Himmanshoo as my partner. And I don't disagree at all. Marriage has been great!
— Amruta Khanvilkar
Tags: marriage, family, good, best
I love ABC Family!
— Jack Antonoff
Tags: i-love, family, love
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
— Bill Gates
Tags: poor, important, rich, think
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