Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'

Nicholas Brendon

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

Mario Batali

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Herbert Spencer

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.(Oscar Wilde's dying words)

Oscar Wilde

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

Camryn Manheim

What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of Jewry was the necessary condition for the rise and expansion of Nazism, so . I first noticed this point when reading an essay by the late Ernest Gellner, who at the end of the war had warned Eastern Europeans that collective punishment of Germans would put them under Stalin's tutelage indefinitely. They would always feel the guilty need for an ally against potential German revenge.

Christopher Hitchens

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnson

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I've been through a lot as far as love.

Leighton Meester

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

Taylor Swift

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Anatole France

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd...from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions.

Sarah Bernhardt, The Memoirs of