When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.
Diane Arbus

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
Meryl Streep

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
Elizabeth Taylor

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck

Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
Larry David

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
Charles Baudelaire

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
Richard Pryor

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
Richard Pryor

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
Peter De Vries

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert Hubbard

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.'"
Tim Vine

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
Miguel de Unamuno

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'
Joe DiMaggio

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot