"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." Hippolyte-Adolphe Taine
"Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union." Josef Stalin
"If people don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting."
"Trouble'n'honey."
  • Patsy Cline
    (09/08/1932 – 03/05/1963)
    US singer, on what someone who'd never seen her would think she looked like
Virginia Patterson Hensley
"This we learn from Watergate
that almost any creep'll
be glad to help the Government
overthrow the people."
Isadore Hochberg
"Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away." John Belushi
"I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten—happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another." Brenda Ueland
"But what if it doesn't work ... ?
and they jammed sticks
In the wheels of the first locomotive
To make sure it wouldn't work."
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"I hate reality—I want to be wholly artificial." Eve Valois