Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Ellen Barkin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

Ann Brashares

Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.

Catherine Deneuve

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Muhammad Iqbal

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

Lady Gaga

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

Ellen Pompeo

Men die, but sorrow never dies;

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, The Crad

It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.

Blaise Pascal

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

Marcia Wallace

But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all.

Thomas Haden Church

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

Benjamin Franklin