I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

Kurt Vonnegut

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

W. H. Auden

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Miguel de Cervantes

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

Georges Bataille

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

Vin Diesel

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

Kinky Friedman

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Mark Twain

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

Woodrow Wilson

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Haruki Murakami

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Anita Brookner

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

Henry Louis Gates