My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

Robin Wright Penn

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Francis Bacon

While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.

Carl Levin

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

Bjork

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

David Herbert Lawrence

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Ernst Fischer

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

David Douglass

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

Dennis Miller

I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.

Daniel Radcliffe

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Marcel Proust

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Leonardo da Vinci