No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

Walter Lippmann

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

Joan Rivers

I studied Hitchcock a little bit at University and knew the famous story about the Birds - that he'd tortured Tippi for a day using real birds. I had no idea that it was a five-day onslaught and that it was the tip of an iceberg that carried on through to another film.

Toby Jones

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Walt Whitman

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

Archie Panjabi

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.

Jonah Goldberg

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Paulo Coelho

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.

Richard King

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Victor Hugo

(When I was at school one would have said, 'I swear by the Bible.' But Bibles were not encouraged at Experiment House.)

C.S. Lewis