I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

Rahm Emanuel

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Albert Einstein

You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

Vin Diesel

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.

William Shakespeare

I reread An Imperial Affliction until Mom woke up and rolled over toward me around six. She nuzzled her head against my shoulder, which felt uncomfortable and vaguely Augustinian.

John Green

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Proverb

There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of mathematics.

John Hicks

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Aldous Huxley

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

John Steinbeck

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Leo Tolstoy

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Luis Bunuel

If I get married, it's something you really have to work at. It's hard enough to work at having a relationship with best friends and girls that are in the business.

Selma Blair