Russell Hammond: You know, I think we both wanted to, uh, to be with her. I guess she wanted us to be together.
Anita Miller: One day you'll be cool. Look under your bed, it'll set you free.
Beth from Denver: Don't worry William, I've seen the future and this all works out reasonably well. William Miller: Reasonably well?
Penny Lane: Look - you should be happy for me. You don't know what he says to me in private. Maybe it is love - as much as it can be...
Elaine Miller: Keep the small bills on the outside and call me if anyone gets drunk. William Miller: I will call you if anyone *anywhere* gets drunk.
Jeff Bebe: And I also slept with Leslie. Russell Hammond: You slept with Jeff? Leslie: Yeah, but it didn't COUNT! It was the summer we decided to be free of all rules!
Penny Lane: Vic is a Zeppelin fan. William Miller: I picked that up. Penny Lane: He tours with them, but not, you know, with them.
Lester Bangs: What are you listening to? William Miller: Stillwater. Lester Bangs: Stillwater? [to himself] Lester Bangs: Fucking kid's doing drugs.
I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.
A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons.
Inventions have long-since reached their limit--and I see no hope for further developments." -- Julius Frontinus, world-famous engineer (Rome, 10 AD)
Psychologists call these fully absorbing experiences flow states, which were discovered and named by a world-famous psychologist with the most unpronounceable surname I have ever encountered – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others' feelings, being inclusive.
While still practising law, he'd run a hearse-rental agency. Then, later, he'd bought into a handkerchief factory in Baker Park. Their most famous innovation was the funeral hankerchief, a plain white cotton handkerchief with a black border. Not long...
Salisbury: Well, lords, we have not got that which we have: 'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled, Being opposites of such repairing nature. York: I know our safety is to follow them; For, as I hear, the king is fled to London, To call a presen...
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything...away.
What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger...unless it instead snaps your spine. Then it makes you a paraplegic.
She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, 'You will be famous.' "The seed was planted. Ambition fed on the compost of my vanity.
Constipation ran Presley's life. Even his famous motto TCB— 'Taking Care of Business'— sounds like a reference to bathroom matters.
