To act wisely...

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

Helena Petrova Blavatsky

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Understanding is a two-way street.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Anthony Hopkins Inside The The Actors Studio

Marie Antoinette ♥

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Let them eat cake.

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

Clementine Kruczynski

Clementine is an unusual name, and almost in a bid to appear worthy of such a rare moniker, she engineers a persona to match. She dies her hair crazy colours and wears some truly awful clothes, but it’s all superficial.

When she first meets Joel (Jim Carrey) the man she will fall in love with, she seeks to inform him of her kookiness in a typically self-deprecating way, as though she can’t help being so goddamned crazy: “Look, I'm sorry if I came off a little nutso, I'm not really.” Joel sees through this and let’s her know it, but though she complains that “guys think I’m a concept”, it is actually a myth that she looks to maintain. She wants to be considered eccentric and weird, as it as her opportunity to be special.

Despite claims to the contrary, she does care what the world thinks of her and it is this huge internal contradiction that ironically, helps make Clementine so appealing. She quizzes Joel if she is ugly – a silly question considering he is her boyfriend by this stage, and yet she desperately needs to hear his answer. She can act tough, shouting the house down and swearing like a trooper, but she is also fragile and riddled with insecurities. These opposites are often packaged together, but unusually, Clementine never looks to suppress them. She is open about her personal issues and happily tells Joel that “I'm an open book. I tell you everything, every damn, embarrassing thing.”

It is her faults and her honest acceptance of these that make us like her all the more. She is ridiculously fickle, has the attention span of a small child and is high-maintenance, and yet these are all traits that she admits to and never looks to change. The hair and wacky clothes might be one way she tries to express her personality, but her true self always shines through, never to be denied. She is self-aware and confident in her limitations, but this inner knowledge of her lesser qualities never makes her withdrawn, apologetic or sad. Instead, she opts to be the life and soul of every party.

“I apply my personality in a paste” she cheerily declares, and though the film focuses more on the story of Joel, it is Clementine who makes the biggest impression. Kate Winslet’s performance as Clementine was voted one of the greatest of all time by Premiere magazine, and it would be churlish to argue. Clementine is noisy and cheery, smiling her way through the film as someone you feel you could know. She is approachable and chatty, so friendly in fact that it is due to her randomly introducing herself to Joel on a train, that their romance begins. When their relationship turns sour, Joel complains that “constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating”, but it is her extroverted exuberance that colours the entire film.

But talk of contradictions, honesty and pushiness suggest a down-to-earth character very much mired in reality. This would be wrong. Clementine is whimsical, romantic and impulsive (Joel: “That's what I love about you”), with a luminous childlike wonder, most evident when the circus unexpectedly comes to town. When she desperately tries to recreate the magic she once felt with Joel, with new man Patrick, she wants to go dancing one moment and then visit the frozen Charles the next.

Clementine injects fun into Joel’s humdrum existence and despite denouncing herself as “just a f**ked-up girl who's lookin' for my own piece of mind”, we come to love her – faults and all.

Madonna

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.

I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

Strong women leave big hickies

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.

Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not married. Who could stand me?

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

It takes a REALLY big man to fill my shoes

I always thought I should be treated like a star.

I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.

It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.

Jack Nicholson

The name Jack Nicholson has become synonymous with remarkable acting talent, maverick personality, and cinematic versatility. A consummate performer, Jack has made his reputation on a series of demanding roles--each uniquely eccentric--that explore man adrift in a hostile or indifferent world. Film Comment contributor Beverly Walker wrote that, time after time, Jack "has evoked empathy and identification with characters whose actions and attitudes are repellent or obstreperous....Many of [his] films have pushed at the outer edges of what mainstream society can tolerate. This...is part of his mystique."

Jack's appeal has never been based solely on his physical appearance, so he has avoided the stereotyping that traps so many of Hollywood's leading men. As he has aged, so too have his characters; where once he played agitated younger men, he now exalts in the special dilemmas of later life.

Jack told the New York Times Magazine: "I like to play people that haven't existed yet, a future something, a cusp character. I have that creative yearning. Much in the way Chagall flies figures into the air--once it becomes part of the conventional wisdom, it doesn't seem particularly adventurous or weird or wild." "Adventurous," "weird," and "wild" certainly describe many of Jack's memorable characters; but his approach to his craft is conventional, based on years of training and a predisposition to analysis and investigation. Rosenbaum characterized Jack as "one of those fanatic believers in the method and mystique of the craft of acting, an actor who, even during the dozen lean years in Hollywood when he was doing only B pictures, D pictures, biker epics and schlock, would nonetheless devotedly go from acting teacher to acting teacher seeking truth the way others of his generation would go from guru to guru or shrink to shrink....If Jack's film persona tends toward world-weary disillusion and cool cynicism, Jack himself is still the kind of excitable acting-theory enthusiast who is capable of great earnestness on the subject."

Natural as he may appear on the screen, Jack brings careful preparation to each part. His overall estimation of acting is also based on intellectual discoveries. "You know," he told Rosenbaum, "they say it takes 20 years at a minimum to make an actor, a full actor, and that's the stage I'm talking about. After you've got some kind of idea of how your instrument is, after you have developed some kind of idea thematically of what you think you're about, after you've got some kind of ease with the craft, then possibly you might have some style." Jack himself might serve as the perfect embodiment of his twenty-year plan: a long apprenticeship and much self-searching contributed to the effortless, stylish performances he is able to give today.

Audrey Hepburn

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge, or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Let me tell you something, Mister. If I had her money, I'd be richer than she is.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

Paris is always a good idea.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

My own life has been much more than a fairy tale. I`ve had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties I`ve gone through, I`ve always gotten a prize at the end.

For me, the only things of interest are those linked to the heart.

I know I have more sex appeal on the tip of my nose than many women in their entire bodies. It doesn`t stand out a mile, but it`s there.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and off the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that’s not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

Sheldon Cooper

When you understand the laws of physics, Penny, anything is possible. And may I add: mwuh-ha-ha.

You know, I’m given to understand that there is an entire city in Nevada designed specifically to help people like Howard forget their problems. They replace them with new problems such as alcoholism, gambling addiction, and sexually transmitted diseases.

That is my spot. In an ever-changing world, it is a single point of consistency. If my life were expressed as a function on a four-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, that spot, at the moment I first sat on it, would be (0,0,0,0).

Leonard: Thank you! Are there any questions?
Sheldon: Yeah. What the hell was that?

This is Doctor Sheldon Cooper. Yeah, I need to cancel my membership to the Planetarium… Well I’m sorry, too, but there’s just no room for you in my wallet… Yeah, I understand, but it was between you and the Museum of Natural History, and frankly, you don’t have dinosaurs… Well, I’ll miss you, too. Bye bye.

I cry because others are stupid, and it makes me sad.

The entire institution of gift-giving makes no sense. Let’s say I go out and I spend $50 on you. It’s a laborious activity because I have to imagine what you need, whereas you know what you need. Now, I could simplify things… just give you the $50 directly, and then you could give me $50 on my birthday, and so on, until one of us dies, leaving the other one old and $50 richer. And I ask you, is it worth it?

Coffee’s out of the question. When I moved to California, I promised my mother that I wouldn’t start doing drugs.

More to come...

Evan Rachel Wood

Friedrich Nietzsche

"El amor y el odio no son ciegos, sino que están cegados por el fuego que llevan dentro."

"Hay siempre algo de locura en el amor; pero siempre hay algo de razón en la locura."

"Lo que se hace por amor acontece más allá del bien y del mal."

"Un alma que se sabe amada, pero que por su parte no ama, delata lo que está en su fondo: -lo más bajo de ella sale a su superficie."

"Cuando en el juego no interviene el amor o el odio, la mujer juega de manera mediocre."

"La crueldad es uno de los placeres más antiguos de la humanidad."

"La manera más desagradable de replicar en una polémica es la de enojarse y la de callar, pues el agresor interpreta ordinariamente el silencio como un desprecio."

"Lo que más me molestó no es que me hayas mentido sino que, de aquí en adelante, no podré creer en tí."

"La mentira más común es aquella con la que un hombre se engaña a sí mismo. Engañar a los demás es un defecto relativamente vano."

"Nada es más necesario que la verdad y, con relación a ella, todo lo demás no tiene más que un valor de segundo orden."

"Quien tiene algo por que vivir, es capaz de soportar cualquier como."

"El sexo es una trampa de la naturaleza para no extinguirse."

"Lo que no me mata, me fortalece."

"Se debe morir orgullosamente cuando ya no es posible vivir con orgullo."

"El hombre, en su orgullo, creó a Dios a su imagen y semejanza."

"Sin música la vida sería un error."

Coco Chanel

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you.

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.

If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but has to be someone.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Marilyn Monroe

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything.

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

Who said nights were for sleep?

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

If your gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

Women who seek to be equal with mean lack ambition

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

There must be a thousand girls out there, dreaming the same things as me. But I'm not going to worry about them;I'm dreaming the hardest.

Well behaved women rarely make history

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

It's woman's spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

Everyone's just laughing at me. I hate it. Big breasts, big ass, big deal, Can't I be anything else ? Gee, how long can you be sexy?

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.