We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

Miranda Otto

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

Cat Stevens

There are no limits, love, there are no limits.

Graham Kennedy

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

Ben Elton

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Paul Erdos

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

H. L. Mencken

no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith

Gerard Way

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Marcus Aurelius

People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.

Matthew Arnold

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Iris Murdoch

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

Renee Fleming

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

William Hazlitt