My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

J. G. Ballard

I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom.

Hilary Duff

The best lessons learned are from other peoples mistakes.

Melissa Bradley

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

Ian Mcewan

The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.

Claudia Black

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

Bernard Crick

I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.

Jamie Bell

I asked my wife if she would put out the garbage. she said why should I you never put out for me.

Rodney Dangerfield

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Jim Rohn

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Hazel Scott

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Carl Sagan

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Charles Caleb Colton