The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957
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Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
—Shirley Chisholm, 1970Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947The young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanThose who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815