Quotations

"I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge."

— Vincent Price, American actor, born 1911

"Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor."

— Vincent Price, American actor, born 1911

"How the hell can a person go to work in the morning, and come home in the evening and have nothing to say."

— John Prine, American singer, born October 10, 1946

"I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.'"

— Freddie Prinze, American comedian, born June 22, 1954

"There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major."

— Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, died March 5, 1953

"In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is duty bound to serve Man, the people. He must beautify life and defend it. He must be a citizen first and foremost, so that his art might consciously extol human life and lead man to a radiant future."

— Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, born April 23, 1891

"Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come."

— Chinese Proverb

"The bird sings not because it has an answer but because it has a song."

— Chinese Proverb

"Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?"

— Proverbs 5:18-20

"Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork."

— English proverb

"When spiders unite, they can tie up a lion."

— Ethiopian proverb

"A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away."

— Arabian proverb

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next time is now."

— Chinese proverb

"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind."

— Malayan proverb