A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
W. H. Auden

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
Benjamin Disraeli

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
Rita Mae Brown

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John Ruskin

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.
Goodman Ace

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
William James

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William James

My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.
Shia LaBeouf

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?
Richard Pryor

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.
Richard Pryor

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.
Howard Gardner

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
Cesar Chavez

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.
Joe E. Lewis

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
Willem de Kooning

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.
Britney Spears

I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.
Britney Spears

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real.
Britney Spears

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Brigham Young