I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Oscar Wilde

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

William Gibson

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Harry F. Banks

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Ernest Hemingway

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

Kahlil Gibran

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Thomas Carlyle

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Hans Eysenck

She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen.

Mira Grant

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

Jane Mayer

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

John Barrymore

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

George Santayana

If we ever stop thinking about the person we want to become, we stop learning and taking risks.

Sally Blount