Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

Andy Warhol

I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.

Virginia Woolf

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

Michel Houellebecq

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Deng Xiaoping

I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.

Giada De Laurentiis

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

A lady's verily is as potent as a lord's

William Shakespeare

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

Brenda Blethyn

Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.

Colleen Hoover

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has people tremble in his presence.

Emir Kusturica

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

David Mamet

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.

Henry David Thoreau