I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.

You only get to keep what you give away.

Sheldon Kopp

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Madame De Rieux

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Jodi Picoult

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

Leo Rosten

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.

Sir Winston Churchill

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Charles Dickens

If the world could remain within a frame Like a painting on a wall, Then I think we would see the beauty, then We would stand staring in awe At our still lives posed Like a bowl of oranges, Like a story told By the fault lines and the soil.

Conor Oberst

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

O. J. Simpson

All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

Demi Moore

I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

Gabriel Basso