Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

James Wolcott

I'm just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they're around me.

Travis Scott

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

George Bernard Shaw

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What if people and their lives and their productions become more beautiful than words can describe because they believe in something bigger than themselves? Is the most important question really whether what they believe is true? Isn't it more important that they are real? Things can be real without being true.

Christine Lim

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

Leonardo DiCaprio

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

Wilhelm Dilthey

I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds.

Francois Hollande

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.

Newt Gingrich