I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body

Paulo Coelho

My dad didn't drive - the only dad I knew who didn't.

Julie Burchill

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

Gabriel Byrne

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

Eric Bana

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Anon.

I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.

Jane Seymour

Prepare yourself for success. You have to see it coming to get there.

Destiny Booze

'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part.

Ernest Hemingway

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Marilyn Ferguson

The biggest problem with politics or running for the governor

Lance Armstrong, interview with

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

Terry Pratchett

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

Carmen Electra