The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Colin Powell

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Martin H. Fischer

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

Stone Gossard

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

James Russell Lowell

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Anon.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

Paul McCartney

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Aristotle

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Stephen King

I always like to start my morning with a good amount of fruit. I really like pineapple, particularly because of the enzymes that it has. Sometimes I have oatmeal. But if I'm feeling like I really want to be watching my weight more, then I definitely do a protein, like an omelet, scrambled eggs or some smoked salmon.

Cynthia Nixon

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

Barbara Bush

Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.

Chubby Checker

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Lew Pritchett