If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Blaise PascalThe man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.
Bertrand RussellThere’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.
John LennonI think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart – they were wonderful actors. They didn’t act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.
Anthony HopkinsI don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.
David BowieI need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
Jim CarreyI think I have a dualistic nature.
Bob DylanGod is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.
Joyce MeyerGetting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
Henry David ThoreauI often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.
Marilyn MonroeIt started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.
Frank OceanI don’t have a vast longing for the stage.
Anthony HopkinsEvery man’s memory is his private literature.
Aldous HuxleyIt’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.
Angelina JolieTime is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
Margaret AtwoodInside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
George CarlinTo have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Blaise PascalI don’t think I am evangelical in my work.
J. K. RowlingThe advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.
Christopher HitchensI’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.
Kevin HartI even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.
George BestWe have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
Paulo CoelhoInstead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.
Joyce MeyerAs you think, so shall you become.
Bruce LeeIf a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace ThackerayNever say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Brian TracyI’m so wrapped up in my work that it’s often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
Jim CarreyWhenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar WildeI woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.
Paul AusterI just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.
Haruki MurakamiWhere does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.
John SteinbeckThe art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
Anthony HopkinsYou know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
James BaldwinWhen I was performing the songs on ‚Kiss Land,‘ it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There’s maybe two choruses on all of ‚Kiss Land.‘
The WeekndThe value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
Elon MuskWe are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.
Baruch SpinozaThere’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.
Kobe BryantUpon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
Abraham LincolnWith fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
Marilyn MonroeIf I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.
Taylor SwiftThere’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.
Clint EastwoodFew are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert EinsteinIn every movie I do have a dialogue.
Jackie ChanThe writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI can be a cruel person.
Amy WinehouseIn order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Albert CamusTo observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.
Alexander PopeI don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.
Stephen HawkingIt is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Albert EinsteinWhat good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?
Marilyn MonroeWho’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?
Dave GrohlWho shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?
Virginia WoolfDancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.
Abby Lee MillerI love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.
Mr. TI’m not good at talking about myself.
Kamala HarrisWhen you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.
Bob MarleyI’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.
Mr. TEveryone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.
Kurt Vonnegut