"Anno 1670, not far from Cirencester, was an apparition: being demanded, whether 'a good spirit, or a bad?' returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious perfume and most melodious twang."
"Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth."
"Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible."
"An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow." Edwin Thomas Booth
"I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man." Harlean Harlow Carpenter
"I was what they called a feature player, never a star. They say I was in 500 films, everything but the newsreels." Eliza Susan Pitts
"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation." Jean Arp
"If, with the literate, I am
impelled to try an epigram
I never seek to take the credit;
we all assume that Oscar said it."
Dorothy Parker
"One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it."
"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either." Leo Burnett
"To enter life by way of the vagina is as good a way as any." Henry Miller
"Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage." Dennis Potter