Mark Twain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark Twain

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Mark Twain

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain

All right, then, I'll go to hell.
Mark Twain

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
Mark Twain

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Mark Twain

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
Mark Twain

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

Stevie Wonder

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Stevie Wonder

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
Stevie Wonder

If you don't ask, you don't get.
Stevie Wonder

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
Stevie Wonder

Let us come together before we're annihilated.
Stevie Wonder

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
Stevie Wonder

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder

Minds ripen at very different ages.
Stevie Wonder

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.
Stevie Wonder

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Stevie Wonder

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
Stevie Wonder

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
Stevie Wonder

Billy Idol

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.
Billy Idol

Deborah Harry

And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.
Debbie Harry

And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.
Debbie Harry

And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.
Debbie Harry

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.
Debbie Harry

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.
Debbie Harry

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
Debbie Harry

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.
Debbie Harry

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.
Debbie Harry

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.
Debbie Harry

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.
Debbie Harry

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.
Debbie Harry

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
Debbie Harry

I feel like I have to have a voice.
Debbie Harry

I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.
Debbie Harry

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.
Debbie Harry

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.
Debbie Harry

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.
Debbie Harry

I really, really like writing songs.
Debbie Harry

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
Debbie Harry

I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.
Debbie Harry

Andrew McCarthy

And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.
Andrew McCarthy

I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.
Andrew McCarthy

I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.
Andrew McCarthy

In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?
Andrew McCarthy

In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film.
Andrew McCarthy

It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience.
Andrew McCarthy

It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.
Andrew McCarthy

Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.
Andrew McCarthy

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.
Andrew McCarthy

So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time.
Andrew McCarthy

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.
Andrew McCarthy

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.
Andrew McCarthy

Howie Mandel

Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.
Howie Mandel

I am beloved by millions.
Howie Mandel

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.
Howie Mandel

I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment.
Howie Mandel

If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?
Howie Mandel

It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.
Howie Mandel

My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.
Howie Mandel

People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world.
Howie Mandel

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.
Howie Mandel

There were 84 original episodes. It was rated No. 1 and No. 2 on the Fox Children's Network. We figured it was time to make it available to people who have never watched it.
Howie Mandel

There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another cash bracket.
Howie Mandel

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.
Howie Mandel

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.
Howie Mandel

You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.
Howie Mandel

You release these things, and if they fly then you have more.
Howie Mandel

Elton John

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Elton John

And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.
Elton John

And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.
Elton John

And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.
Elton John

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.
Elton John

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.
Elton John

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.
Elton John

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.
Elton John

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.
Elton John

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.
Elton John

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.
Elton John

I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.
Elton John

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.
Elton John

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.
Elton John

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.
Elton John

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.
Elton John

I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.
Elton John

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.
Elton John

I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.
Elton John

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.
Elton John