We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

Lester Bangs

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

Tim Berners Lee

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

Nigel Cole

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

Tom Landry

Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets.

Clark Moustakas

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

Jerry Doyle

It seemed like forever ago, like we'd had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

John Green

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

Natalie Portman