I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?'

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

Queen Rania of Jordan

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

John Fowles, The Magus

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Max Irons

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

Albert Einstein

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Edward Burnett Tylor

You may think, passer-by, that Fate Is a pit-fall outside of yourself, Around which you may walk by the use of foresight And wisdom.

Edgar Lee Masters

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

Sigourney Weaver

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Alan Watts

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

Dean Koontz

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

Carl Levin