As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

Oscar Wilde

The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

Amanda Seyfried

Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.

Krist Novoselic

It is better to live rich, than to die rich.

Samuel Johnson

I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, .

Chris Cleave

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Steven Pinker

A three -- to four -- to five-hour experience with nothingness.

Frederic Glezer

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

William Tecumseh Sherman

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Steve Case

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

Francois Rabelais

Let your will burn in this fire so that it takes you nowhere else. Let your self be burned in this fire of eternity, love and peace. Don't be afraid of this fire, it is love itself. This desire for freedom is the fire of love!

Sri H.W.L. Poonja

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

Earl Wilson