I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

Laurell K Hamilton

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Tony Blair

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.

Robert Redford

Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldn't get with child, but a woman could---every four-year-old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization had provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath.

Stephen King

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

Georges Bataille

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

David Hume

When we think we lead we are most led.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Franz Grillparzer

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal and in that city I spent most of my life.

Maria Monk

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

Marcus Aurelius