When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

He thought of Musashi, the Sword Saint, standing in his garden more than three hundred years ago. "What is the 'Body of a rock'?" he was asked. In answer, Musashi summoned a pupil of his and bid him kill himself by slashing his abdomen with a knife.

Who's scruffy-looking?

Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.

Producers seem to be so prejudiced against actors who've had no training. And there's no reason for it. So what if I didn't attend the Royal Academy for twelve years? I'm still a professional trying to be the best actress I can. Why doesn't anyone

... Our second completely true news item was sent to me by Mr. H. Boyce Connell Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., where he is involved in a law firm. One thing I like about the South is, folks there care about tradition. If somebody gets handed a name like "H.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

If we don't survive, we don't do anything else.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back the when it begins to rain.

Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

By the middle 1880's, practically all the roads except those in the South, were of the present standard gauge. The southern roads were still five feet between rails. It was decided to change the gauge of all southern roads to standard, in one day

Art is a jealous mistress.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Nice guys finish last.

What you don't know won't help you much either.

Some scholars are like donkeys, they merely carry a lot of books.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive!

Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

Monterey... is decidedly the pleasantest and most civilized-looking place in California ... [it] is also a great place for cock-fighting, gambling of all sorts, fandangos, and various kinds of amusements and knavery.

If you want divine justice, die.

Would that my hand were as swift as my tongue.

And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.

If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

Just close your eyes, tap your heels together three times, and think to yourself, `There's no place like home.'

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as we speak.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behin

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Events are not affected, they develop.

Education and religion are two things not regulated by supply and demand. The less of either the people have, the less they want.

Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunc

It's not a sin not to be Irish, but it is a great shame.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

If there were a school for, say, sheet metal workers, that after three years left its graduates as unprepared for their careers as does law school, it would be closed down in a minute, and no doubt by lawyers.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

To have died once is enough.

Fortune's Guide to Freshman Notetaking: WHEN THE PROFESSOR SAYS: YOU WRITE: Probably the greatest quality of the poetry John Milton

Let your conscience be your guide.

I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.

The sky is blue so we know where to stop mowing.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

France is a country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh, well, I think of my sex life.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.

"What are you watching?" "I don't know." "Well, what's happening?" "I'm not sure... I think the guy in the hat did something terrible." "Why are you watching it?" "You're so analytical. Sometimes you just have to let art flow over you."

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

One big pile is better than two little piles.

Necessity has no law.

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it.

My father, a good man, told me, "Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it."

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Whatever doesn't succeed in two months and a half in California will never succeed.

Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. [Confound those who have said our remarks before us.] or [May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.]

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches.

One good turn asketh another.

Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped.

It'll be just like Beggars' Canyon back home.

Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal.

Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

Well, he thought, since neither Aristotelian Logic nor the disciplines of Science seemed to offer much hope, it's time to go beyond them... Drawing a few deep even breaths, he entered a mental state practiced only by Masters of the Universal Way of

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

"The jig's up, Elman." "Which jig?"

Best Mistakes In Films In his "Filmgoer's Companion", Mr. Leslie Halliwell helpfully lists four of the cinema's greatest moments which you should get to see if at all possible. In "Carmen Jones", the camera tracks with Dorothy Dandridge down a st

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.

Plus ,ca change, plus c'est la m^eme chose. [The more things change, the more they remain the same.]

Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students who now smoke pot will someday become congressmen and legalize it in order to protect themselves.

Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

"There is no Father Christmas. It's just a marketing ploy to make low income parents' lives a misery." "... I want you to picture the trusting face of a child, streaked with tears because of what you just said." "I want you to picture the face of

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

Sometimes, too long is too long.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealings with men.

"Are you police officers?" "No, ma'am. We're musicians."

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

There is a secret person undamaged within every individual.

There must be more to life than having everything.

The Least Successful Equal Pay Advertisement In 1976 the European Economic Community pointed out to the Irish Government that it had not yet implemented the agreed sex equality legislation. The Dublin Government immediately advertised for an equal

I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

Art is anything you can get away with.

... but as records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witch

In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.

Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim. I don't enjoy the sky or sea as much as I used

Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.

There is no comfort without pain; thus we define salvation through suffering.