I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

Fatigue is the best pillow

Benjamin Franklin

That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale.

E.A. Bucchianeri

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

Salma Hayek

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Alexander Dumas

I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

Malcolm X

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Paul De Man

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Barbara Kingsolver

The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.

Edwin Moses

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Abbie Hoffman

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Richard Burton

Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron