Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
—Oscar Levant
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
—Alfred Hitchcock
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
—Oscar Wilde
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
—Calvin Coolidge
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
—Mark Twain
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
—John D. Rockefeller
With renunciation life begins.
—Amelia Barr
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
—Lou Holtz
The mountains are calling and I must go.
—John Muir
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
—Bill Watterson
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
—Paul Dirac
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
—Philip Guston
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
—Henri Matisse