I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.

Simon Mainwaring

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

John Keats

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

Shirley Manson

The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Sir Walter Scott

When I learn something new-and it happens every day-I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Bill Moyers

Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath...It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

Nicholas Sparks

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.

William Shakespeare

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

Rob Bell

I tried to make up by offering to be a subject for any cute tricks that science might want to try. And said, Mr. Wood, we cannot use you as an experimental animal, and I tod him, Doc, I'm an effeminate queer, I've never been used as anything else!

Robert Patrick (playwright)

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Claude LeviStrauss

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

Albert Einstein