I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

Art Buchwald

I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!

Elijah Wood

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

Roland Barthes

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Anais Nin

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Joseph De Maistre

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Voltaire

The rich never have to seek out their relatives.

Italian Proverb

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Mark Twain

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Aleister Crowley

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Mary Douglas

I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow.

Julianna Margulies