Lester Bangs: You like Lou Reed? William Miller: The early stuff. In his new stuff he's trying to be Bowie, but he should just be himself.
[first lines] Elaine Miller: I can't believe you wanna be Atticus Finch. Oh, that makes me feel so good. Young William: I like him.
William Miller: I kept thinking I was gonna go home the next day. Dick Roswell: Yeah. So did I... fifteen years ago.
Estrella Starr: [about Penny Lane] She Changed everything. She was the one that said "No more sex. No more exploiting our bodies and hearts." Just blow-jobs, and that's it!
Dick Roswell: Ladies and Gentelmen! The evening is over. We hope you all enjoyed yourselves and we'll see you all again in 1974. Good evening!
Sapphire: William? I forgot to tell you. Your mom called. She says you gotta call home immediately. And she says to tell you, ''I know what's going on.''
Dick Roswell: You wanna buy a gate? All in car: Yeah! Dick Roswell: [Tour bus drives through the gate] You just bought a gate!
Penny Lane: Hey, when we go to Morocco... I think we should wear completely different clothes... and be completely different people. William Miller: What will our names be?
Russell Hammond: I slept with Marna, Dick. Jeff Bebe: I did too. Larry Fellows: I waited until you broke up with her, but me too.
Ben Fong-Torres: [reading William's story] "I'm flying high over Tupelo, Mississippi... with America's hottest band... and we're all about to die." - Dark, lively.
Elaine Dickinson: Would you like something to read? Hanging Lady: Do you have anything light? Elaine Dickinson: How about this leaflet, "Famous Jewish Sports Legends?"
Is being single hard? It depends where your mind is. If you are focused, being single is an enjoyable experience, but if you hate being alone, you'll hate being single. I think it depends on the individual are where they are in life.
Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul.
We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.
I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.
Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.
To be human is easy, to be a human being is difficult.
The smallest thing outlives the human being.
When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and an astute student of human nature), what the secret of happiness was. Instead of giving me advice, he made a rather droll observa...
A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed o...
Henry Barthes: How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you? Henry Barthes: Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false. Henry Barthes: Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pr...
