It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.
Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.
Charles Grassley
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Alfred North Whitehead
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.
Lauren Conrad
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
Common sense is genius in homespun.
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.
I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.
Max Irons
People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.
Willie Stargell
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
Rachael Ray
There's no religion but sex and music.
Sting
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
Azar Nafisi
In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
Hugh Hefner
It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
David Byrne
I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.
Joely Fisher
I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
Ace Frehley
I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.
Elton Gallegly
Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
Doug Coupland
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Elie Wiesel
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
Thomas Becket
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.
Joey Lauren Adams
Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.
William Irwin Thompson
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
Raymond Chandler
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid... He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.
Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.
Zoe Kazan
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.
They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.
All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.
Tiger Woods
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.
Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.
Jeffrey Kluger
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