If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible. Ryan Gosling
We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with. Lou Harrison
Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education. Thomas Hughes
If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there. Jock Sturges
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life. Aimee Mann
It is now six o'clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and take something to eat, for Van Helsing and Seward are agreed that if we do not eat we cannot work our best.
I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life. Franka Potente
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. Bertrand Russell