For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

Mercedes Lackey

One does not accumulate but eliminate . It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Bruce Lee

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

Madeleine Peyroux

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.

Alexandra Paul

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

John Updike, "Christian Science

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

Miriam Makeba

You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybody but me.

Jane Austen

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

Michael Hutchence

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

Thomas More

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.

Steven Wright

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson