I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Muhammad Ali

Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.

Orson Scott Card

I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.

Satyajit Ray

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.

Peter Jennings

I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.

Steven Spielberg

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Pat Riley

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Moliere

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

Wilson Mizner

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Andrew Wyeth

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

Huston Smith

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

Gene Tierney

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

Clive Owen