I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

Ernest Holmes

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

Alison Lurie

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Seamus Heaney

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

Carrie Chapman Catt

We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that we choose death.

Dame Barbara Ward

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Elvis Presley

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

Sally Field

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

Ethel Waters

A winner makes commitment. A loser makes promises.

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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?

Neil Gaiman