I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.

If only, I thought, I could talk to Eugene just one more time. This was before I came to understand that you cannot make someone fall in love with you But here's what you can do. By arguing and pleading and screaming and crying and throwing plates and phoning a lot and bringing hot food and sending flowers and buying gifts and doing unsolicited favors and remembering a birthday and being nice and declaring your abiding love and trying hard or sometimes merely by being present, you can make someone who was hitherto lukewarm really detest you.

Patricia Marx

The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Edward Hopper

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

Sir Thomas Browne

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Thomas Carlyle

Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.

Ayrton Senna

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

Carter Burwell

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Orson Scott Card

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

Conrad Black

The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.

Timothy Radcliffe

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

Harvey Fierstein, step #6 of A 1

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur, pt