Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Henry David Thoreau

The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.

John Evans

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors

Benjamin Franklin

Life takes us on different paths... It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and embrace them.(Lara Lington - to Sadie Lancaster)

Sophie Kinsella

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

SunTzu

And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be wrong, but you'll be wrong with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now.

Ben Goldacre

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

Cecil Beaton

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

William Shakespeare

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

Eric Alterman

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Thomas Jefferson

Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.

Josh Hutcherson

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Francis Schaeffer