Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

Gale Norton

We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.

John Kerry

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

James Russell Lowell

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

Heather Matarazzo

People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.

Brian Friel

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them

David Hume

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you.

Julio Iglesias

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Joan L. Curcio

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

H. L. Mencken

...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

Mary McCarthy

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Andre Maurois