Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness.

Ingmar Bergman, Laterna Magica

Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.

Edward Hoagland

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Kinky Friedman

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

William Golding

If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.

Jack LaLanne

I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.

Krista Allen

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.

John Stamos

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Ann Landers

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Albert Einstein

Speak less and listen more.

Zai

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Ovid

I try to give positive energy in all my shows.

Curtis Jones