I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to. Drew Barrymore We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another. John le Carre I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't. Bill Cosby Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure? Tanith Lee The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me. Kate Capshaw Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. Edith Sitwell The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces th...

the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. Agnes Martin Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement. Peter Weir It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops. Evan Hunter I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself. Drea De Matteo The Republican Party is not inclusive. Charles Evers If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. H. G. Wells Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field. Jerry Stiller

Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. Gordon Moore Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment. Charles Stanley It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. Matthew Arnold Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Ludwig von Mises A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. Helen Rowland I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement. Mary Crosby The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. Tony Benn

If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry. Charles Taze Russell The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean. Chen Shui-bian I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused. Rachel Field There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz. Robert Wyatt The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system. Edwin Powell Hubble A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by ...

love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. Nelson Algren I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising. Liev Schreiber At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success. William Cameron Forbes By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. Robert A. Heinlein There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time. Charles Horton Cooley There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live. Rip Torn If you compare ...

issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month. James Daly I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones. Patti Page I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces. Dan Rather And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?' Rudyard Kipling Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs. Corrine Brown Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. Miguel de Cervantes I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tou...

the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. John Ruskin You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk. George Clooney There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. Tom Wolfe Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. Elizabeth Bowen Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. Alexander Pope Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive. Kinky Friedman I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money. Marlon Brando

falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly. Chuck Hagel They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade. Keith Emerson We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast. Mark Hoppus The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. William Shakespeare Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Khalil Gibran We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth. Hans Kung In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet. Will Smith

in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all. Claudia Black By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state. Roy Barnes We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. Neville Chamberlain If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it. Norton Simon Taken out of context I must seem so strange. Ani DiFranco The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger. Henry Walter Bates I don't like people looking at me; I hate the attention. Cathy Freeman

mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me. Jerry Lawler I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US. Mario Monti I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. William Styron There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. Stephen Hawking Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. Bo Bennett You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar You can kill a revolutionary but you...

player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything. Will Oldham What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. J. G. Ballard Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices. Peter Lewis Allen All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind. Logan Pearsall Smith I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof. Andrew Wiles What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain? Marquis De Custine Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. George Sanders

technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out. Frank Stella I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials. Scott McCallum Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame. Lady Bird Johnson Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play. Robert Englund Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. Robert Louis Stevenson I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand. Rodney Dangerfield I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener. Roger Sessions

first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Havelock Ellis I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor. Michael Scheuer Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. Arthur Schopenhauer Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Charlie Chaplin Study carefully the law of cause and effect. Vernon Howard It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. Winston Churchill Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason f...

to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old. Arnold Schwarzenegger It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp. Michael Shanks So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices. Merton Miller We must ensure that today's seniors' benefits are rock solid and find a solution that fixes Social Security for the next generation that is just entering the workforce. John Thune Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless. John Wilkes Booth Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Nikola Tesla The United States is the leader o...

attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world. Ed Markey A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable. Heather Donahue A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. Adlai E. Stevenson I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'. Debra Winger It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential. Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. Joseph Stiglitz Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. ...