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Hesiod: If thou shouldst...

Hesiod: If thou shouldst...

If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become...

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Delmore Schwartz: All poets' wives...

Delmore Schwartz: All poets' wives...

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

Source:...

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Janis Joplin: You got to...

Janis Joplin: You got to...

You got to get it while you can. . .

Source: Get It While You Can.
-- Janis...

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Julia Roberts: If all you...

Julia Roberts: If all you...

If all you have to offer is a look that is suppose to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a...

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Steve Martin: A joke that...

Steve Martin: A joke that...

A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Jay Leno: It is said...

Jay Leno: It is said...

It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in...

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Stanley Kubrick: A film is...

Stanley Kubrick: A film is...

A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and...

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Miles Davis: Do not fear...

Miles Davis: Do not fear...

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Candice Bergen: Living in L.A....

Candice Bergen: Living in L.A....

Living in L.A. is like not having a date on Saturday night.

Source: In The Book of...

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Agnes George DeMille: Theater people are...

Agnes George DeMille: Theater people are...

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America...

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Ellen Terry: If it is...

Ellen Terry: If it is...

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the...

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Mae West: I used to...

Mae West: I used to...

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Peter Ustinov: I am an...

Peter Ustinov: I am an...

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place...

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W C Fields: Happiness means quiet...

W C Fields: Happiness means quiet...

Happiness means quiet nerves.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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W C Fields: The world is...

W C Fields: The world is...

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

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W C Fields: On the whole...

W C Fields: On the whole...

On the whole I'd rather be in Philadelphia.

Source: Epitaph.
-- W C Fields, (Jan...

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Konstantin Stanislavsky: Talent is nothing...

Konstantin Stanislavsky: Talent is nothing...

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental...

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Will Rogers: Alexander Hamilton originated...

Will Rogers: Alexander Hamilton originated...

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the...

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Ossie Davis: It's not the...

Ossie Davis: It's not the...

It's not the man, it's the plan. It's not the rap, it's the map.

Source: In African...

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Tom Stoppard: The truth is...

Tom Stoppard: The truth is...

The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to...

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