Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

Peter O'Toole

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

Randy Harrison

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Emily Dickinson

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.

Picabo Street

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Little

I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

John Fowles

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Jane Goodall

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

Henry David Thoreau

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

Leo Tolstoy

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

David Puttnam

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Jacqueline Cochran