Guy de Maupassant // "Music...this art made out of mathematics and air, is simply the result of the strange properties of a little membrane... Would we be able to detect music without the ear? Of course not. Well, we are surrounded by things whose existence we never suspect, because we lack the organs that would reveal them to us."
Michael Caine // "The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly...because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them."
Alexander McQueen // "It's a new era...there are no rules."
François Truffaut // "Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die."
Simone de Beauvoir // "The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power."
Stephen King // "The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them. Words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out."
Salvador Dali // "Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali."
Samuel Beckett // "We are all born mad. Some remain so."
Diana Vreeland // "I think when you're young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together."
John F. Kennedy // "If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live."
Gloria Steinem // "Once we give up searching for approval, we often find it easier to earn respect."
Jeremy Irons // "What a camera likes are eyes which have life and a story to tell."