Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

Shelley Winters

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.

Swoosie Kurtz

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

David Attenborough

Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.

John Grisham

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Laurence Sterne

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.

C.S. Lewis

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.

Anne Frank

I have always been a business person.

Bethenny Frankel

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Source Unknown

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.

Carre Otis

Walking and talking - that seemed a very odd way of spending an afternoon.

Aldous Huxley

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history.

Rachel Bilson