My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

Alexander Chase

I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.

Karen McDougal

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

Rod Stewart

The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - from Live Without Principle

Henry David Thoreau

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

Nicolas Cage

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

Sophocles

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Oscar Wilde

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

Sir Winston Churchill

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

Henry David Thoreau