In a land that knew only dark beauty, she was something of a hybrid no one dared touch. But the tall Arab did not appear in the least daunted by her abnormality. No, she saw his eyes. He was not daunted in the least.

Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.

Vincent Cassel

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Jacques Attali

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

Dodie Smith

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

Passions are the gales of life.

Alexander Pope

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

Stephen Hawking

No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.

Proverb

My definition of success is control.

Kenneth Branagh

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Benjamin Disraeli

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson

Act like a champion, and then become one.

Steve Backley

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

Jeff Sessions