There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

Idris Elba

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

Norman Douglas, The Oracle

In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.

Jim Costa

A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!

Taraji P. Henson

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

Julie Burchill

The business of America is business.

Calvin Coolidge

I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant.

Jason Behr

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

C.S. Lewis

Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.

Andre Breton

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

Willie Nelson

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Alexander Chase

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

Christopher Plummer