Favourite quotes

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

Cleopatra

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

Marilyn Monroe

Shared suffering brings people together faster than anything else does.

We learn more when looking for the answer and not finding it.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

~Adolph Hitler

In war, truth is the first casualty.

~Aeschylus

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Orson Welles

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Alfred Hitchcock

Some succeed because they are destined to. But most succeed because they are determined to.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Victor Hugo

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Salvador Dali

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Tom Stoppard

The idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Francis Bacon

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Christopher Morley