Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

A library implies an act of faith.

Victor Hugo

The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.

Jean Dubuffet

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.

George Eliot

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

John Schlesinger

Love without conversation is impossible.

Mortimer Adler

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Mark Twain

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Jessica Simpson

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

G. K. Chesterton

The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.

George Seldes

If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.

Proverb

There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

Chuck Barris

They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.

Andrea Mitchell