I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

Jodie Foster

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

Alain Badiou

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Voltaire

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Benjamin Disraeli

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

Salma Hayek

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

Parker J. Palmer

Hope is a very thin diet.

Thomas Shadwell

Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day, and you're still petrified of so many things, such as, can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels, even though he had the softened California consonants.

Toby Jones

Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.

Joshua Homme

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

Kin Hubbard