"We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming."
Novalis(05/02/1772 – 03/25/1801)
German writer
"Assassins!"
Arturo Toscanini
"History gets thicker as it approaches recent times."
A. J. P. Taylor
"The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams."
Claude deBussy
"He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged."
Simone Signoret
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
Flannery O'Connor
"It would be unfair to suggest that one of the most characteristic sounds of the English Sunday is the sound of Harold Hobson barking up the wrong tree."
Penelope Gilliatt
"Perhaps men should think twice before making widowhood our only path to power."
Gloria Steinem
"If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters."
Anita Bryant
"Sure, the body count in this movie bothers me, but what are you gonna do? It's what everybody likes. At least it's not an awful body count – it's a fun body count."
Bonnie Bedelia
"There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex... People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats."
Elton John
"If someone told me they were a 'lesbian sex guru,' I would tell them to get a life."
Susie Bright
"When my boyfriend and I are going out, he'll sometimes look at me and say, 'Where's your dress?'"
Sarah Jessica Parker
"I loved making 'Rising Sun.' I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth."
Tatjana Patitz
"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while."
Max Eastman
"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
Edward Steichen
"Politics makes estranged bedfellows."
Goodman Ace
"If Roseanne Barr is the new Lucille Ball, I'm the new Garbo."
Nancy Walker
"I'd like to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time."
Buck Owens