If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven't done the cool movies that they like. With '24,' I gained a lot of respect. '24' is now, it's hip, it's their generation.

Ricky Schroder

Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and watching TV- and why they would want to.

CrimethInc.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Susan Sontag

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

Virginia Woolf

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador Dali

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

W. H. Auden

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

John Lowenstein

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

J. K. Rowling

In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class;and in ordinary life, despite the high-falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beet-root sugar, and potato spirits.

Karl Marx

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

Will Smith

The Dodgson family worshipped the God of Love, who showed his stern face only in the presence of evil.

Florence Becker Lennon

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

Khalil Gibran