"Know thyself."

Socrates | Self-knowledge | 2 bookmarks

"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."

Franklin, Benjamin | Self-knowledge | 5 bookmarks

"Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von | Self-knowledge | 3 bookmarks

"Life is a horizontal fall."

Cocteau, Jean | Life and Living | 2 bookmarks

"It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived."

Sontag, Susan | Memory | 2 bookmarks

"A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin."

Washington, Denzel | Critics and Criticism | 1 bookmarks

"People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything."

Warhol, Andy | Cinema | 5 bookmarks

"The whole world is about three drinks behind."

Bogart, Humphrey | Alcohol and Alcoholism | 2 bookmarks

"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown."

Magritte, Rene | Unknown | 2 bookmarks