Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become

Minnie Maddern Fiske, As quoted

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

Lemony Snicket

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

David Zucker

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

Adrienne Rich

And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

John Milton

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

Joe Biden

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Henry Van Dyke

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

Chris Rock

Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

William Butler Yeats

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Anthony Robbins

O rose, who dares to name thee?No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,--Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A De