Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

During normal cell metabolism, RNA is constantly being made and broken down. The purine and pyrimidine residues are reused by several salvage pathways to make more genetic material. Purine is salvaged in the form of the corresponding nucleotide, whereas pyrimidine is salvaged as the nucleoside.

Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.

I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.

Most people who go to Rajasthan go to Udaipur, Jodhpur or Jaipur.

I know people socially who live in countries where the wealth gap is more extreme than it is in America, and they live with full-time security. They live with the threat of getting kidnapped, or they live with the threat of people invading their homes.

My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.

The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

No one is [truly] poor, save for someone who is ill.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Alcoholism is an imperfect spiritual longing.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.