My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

Satyajit Ray

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

Jane Austen

For the rest, Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

Jonathan Swift

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Isaac Newton

In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.

Melanie Brown

There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

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I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.

Rodney Dangerfield

One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Oscar Wilde

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

Kelly Brook

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.

Jane Siberry