What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Gustave Flaubert

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Frank Ocean

We had the best food any battlefield ever had.

William Westmoreland

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Roland Joffe

My mom's been married three times my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.

Skeet Ulrich

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

Debra Messing

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

David Frum

He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind. Repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity for communicating dissent and opposition. This is the formula for political conditioning of the masses.

Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the M

I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.

Glenn Beck

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Orson Scott Card

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

Kristin Scott Thomas

They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.

Matthew Prior