The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
Fran Lebowitz

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

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
Lady Bird Johnson

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
George Matthew Adams

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
Bell Hooks

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
Van Morrison

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.
Megan Fox

It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
Calvin Klein

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
Bill Hicks

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.
Bill Hicks

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
Billie Holiday

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
Thomas J. Watson

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
Toni Morrison

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
Calvin Klein

If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
Calvin Klein

Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?
John Hughes

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Billy Connolly

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
A. P. Herbert

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
Sydney J. Harris

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
Tom Hopkins