Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

David Fincher

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

Rashida Jones

The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.

Cokie Roberts

Honor the ocean of love.

George De Benneville

Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car.

Diablo Cody

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all: it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

H. L. Mencken

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Marcel Proust

I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.

Princess of Wales Diana

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.

Shel Silverstein

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

Pat Conroy

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

Tracy Morgan