When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.

Amanda Bynes

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

Ang Lee

We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.

Thomas Frank

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Walter Pater

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun

Don Henley

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Lyman Abbott

The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities, the galaxies cluttered with the memorabilia of ages, are gradually dying. Tens of billions of years pass in the growing darkness ... of a universe condemned to become a galactic graveyard.

Edward Harrison

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

O. Henry

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Larry Page

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Elbert Hubbard

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau