I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Marshall Lumsden

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

Ang Lee

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

Bob Lemon

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frank Norris

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

Emile M. Cioran

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Peter Levi

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.

Steven Wright

Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.

Amitabh Bachchan

At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens -- women, workers and the members of subject races -- to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete.

Vera Brittain

There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.

George Bernard Shaw

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places.

Mark Twain