Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Betty Grable

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Pearl Bailey

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

John Cusack

The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

Barbara Tuchman

Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or highroad to the soul's destination.

Joseph Campbell

I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

Mark Twain

Sometimes when I'm going to sleep, I think, 'Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he's doing and I wonder if he knows me.' I just always think that's so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your future husband was out there somewhere.

Emma Roberts

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Samuel Butler

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

James Hetfield

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

Virginia Woolf

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

Elizabeth Taylor

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

Herodotus