The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

Ethel Waters

The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.

Wesley Snipes

By the glare of false science betray'd, That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.

James Beattie

I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl.

Norm MacDonald

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

Robert Crumb

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

Liam Neeson

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

Patrick J. Buchanan

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

Jodi Picoult

Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

Source Unknown

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

Ang Lee

It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Bryant H. McGill