Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing

I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.

Rose McGowan

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

Louis Leakey

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Galileo Galilei

It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.

Dan Kennedy

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

Vera Farmiga

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

Richard Ford

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

Kim Campbell

My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Benjamin Carson

Constant togetherness is fine -- but only for Siamese twins.

Victoria Billings

The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Woodrow Wilson

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Terry Pratchett