Quotes of famous people

“Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.”

“Why not just tell people I'm an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They'll believe anything you say, because you're a reporter. But if I, Michael Jackson, were to say, "I'm an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight," people would say, "Oh, man, that Michael Jackson is nuts. He's cracked up. You can't believe a damn word that comes out of his mouth."”

“You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.”

“At eighteen you don't think about memories,
you tell them.”

“In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.”

“You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.”

“All know the way; few actually walk it.”

“O God! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell
and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise.
But if I worship You for Your Own sake,
grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty.”

“A woman who says 'because I am working I will not be a mother' is actually denying her feminity.”

“I don't want to be part of a world where being kind is a weakness.”

“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”

“The way you make an omelet reveals your character.”

“I don’t regret the things I’ve done. I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.”

“The sadness will last forever.”

“San Francisco has always been a dream. And the Golden Gate Bridge and Hollywood, I’d love to see them too.”

“Isn't it clear that the war makers are gambling with your lives, while pocketing huge profits?”

“My boys may charge me with all they want. The main thing is, it helps them. They are not evil and no criminals. They are the products of total war, grown up on the streets of scattered towns without any education! The only thing [they] knew was to handle weapons for the Dream of [the] Reich. They were young people with a hot heart and the desire to win or to die, according to the word: right or wrong—my country!”

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”

“Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?”