Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

Jean Baudrillard

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Karl Pearson

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

Ernest Gaines

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Anthony Robbins

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Ambrose Bierce

More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.

Lev Grossman

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

Zach Braff

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Al Capone

Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him

Samuel Johnson

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

Andy Rooney

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

Angelina Jolie

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Eugene Delacroix