We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like American Beauty. We've become a heavy-handed society.

Pauline Kael

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Kenneth Baker

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Ron Paul

The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience there is no theater. Every technique learned by the actor, every curtain, every flat on the stage, every careful analysis by the director, every coordinated scene, is for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, our evaluators, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.

Viola Spolin

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.

Henry Villard

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

Herman Melville

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

Eric Hoffer

You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.

Josephine de La Baume

Fact and fiction are different truths.

Patricia MacLachlan

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

Ben Barnes

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

Leo Tolstoy