There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

... 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

Whenever anyone says, "theoretically," they really mean, "not really."

Getting into trouble is easy.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra and sank.

There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

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

The day advanced as if to light some work of mine; it was morning, and lo! now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished.

No good deed goes unpunished.

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

The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

Let sleeping dogs lie.