The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand times.Quote by Aristotel about truth
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning about impossible
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive - besides one can game ten...Quote by George Gordon Byron about wine, ambition, fame, games, happiness, being, things, people
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.Quote by John Bradshaw about lie, essential, reality, pain, thinking, truth, life
If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?Quote by Maria Callas about nation, people
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.Quote by Jane Austen
I didn't want to go to places that have been written about so many times by people so much more qualified than I, like James Jones and Norman Mailer who lived through it. I was always searching for my own theater of war.Quote by Michael Chabon about searching, war, people
If I'm published in Vogue, say, or in The New York Times Sunday magazine, once it disappears from the beauty salons and doctors' offices, it's gone forever.Quote by Michael Chabon about beauty
Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.Quote by Bette Davis about actors
If I go out with a man three times, they don't immediately say he is my lover.Quote by Catherine Deneuve about man
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.Quote by Winston Churchill about wife
Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.Quote by Placido Domingo about money
When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.Quote by Placido Domingo about nothing
I have a silly sense of humour and I can be a little vulgar at times, but just with people I am close to. I like to make people laugh.Quote by Carmen Electra about vulgarity, common sense, sense, people
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about events, memory, children, past, man