The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb

It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

Roger Andrew Taylor

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Richard Whately

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

Jackie Robinson

We've got to simplify, pull back all these layers of supposed complexity , and get down to the essentials. If we want people to engage with government, we should use the same tools that are getting them engages with companies and institutions in private life. If we want people to care about political issues, we should give them a way to understand and get involved in them.

Gavin Newsom

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Roger Ebert

Is this one of those days where we all stalk out in fury? Because I simply haven't got the energy for it.

Cassandra Clare

Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

Cotton Fitzsimmons

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Kahlil Gibran, "The Captive King

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Christina Ricci

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

Oliver Cromwell