I can live for two months on a good compliment.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

Gustav Stresemann

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

Tom Hooper

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

Jimmy Buffett

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Edwin Markham

He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive...

James Agee, On deadpan comedian

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

Paul McCartney

And now once again I asked myself the question: do I love her? And once more I could not answer, that is to say, again, for the hundreth time, I answered that I hated her.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

Thornton Wilder

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Royal Little

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Thomas Paine

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

Ann Richards