Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

Albert Einstein

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

George Bernard Shaw

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

Gus Van Sant

Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

Rick Perry

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

Jenna Ushkowitz

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

Mary J. Blige

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

John McCarthy

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Alexander Hamilton

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

Mel Torme

I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.

Max Barry

I love working in the theater.

Didi Conn

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Miguel de Cervantes