Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

Evan Davis

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Theodore Parker

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

James Russell Lowell

So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust. What was fiery and furtive like a fling of grain cast into the air and blown hither and thither by wild gusts of life from every quarter is now methodical and orderly and flung with a purpose--so it seems.

Virginia Woolf

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

George Eliot

The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.

Joel Silver

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

Yahoo Serious

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

Lasse Hallstrom

Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.

W. Somerset Maugham

When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

Ted Rall

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

Thomas Jefferson