When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

Curt Schilling

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Agatha Christie

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

Enid Nemy

Art is a jealous mistress.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Aristotle

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

Source Unknown

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

Melanie Laurent

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.

Bill Keller

I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else - someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.

Cassandra Clare

It is rare indeed that there is not ample occasion for grumbling.

John Wagstaff