All Quotes

People always put their own spin on things, remember what they want to remember, and somewhere in the middle of it all is the truth—the real version.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

—Fred Allen

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

—Virgil Thomson

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

—Winston Churchill

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

—Alfred Hitchcock

There are moments, when you’re getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you’ve known your whole life.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

Be nice. Funny. Smart. Generous. Kind. Feed your body with good food. Your soul with good friends. And your mind with new things.

—Jillian Dodd in Love Me

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

—Elbert Hubbard

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

—Samuel Johnson

I guess that’s what makes life special. It’s unexpected. Scary as hell. But in the end, totally worth it.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Tear

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

—Jerome K. Jerome

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.

—Robert Orben

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

—Josh Billings

I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

—John Maynard Keynes