It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Jamie Zawinski

Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.

Wolfgang Puck

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

Jean de La Fontaine

Love is photogenic, it develops in the dark.

Lorraine Gokul

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

Charles Churchill

I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.

Phil Collins

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

Bear Grylls

How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature! And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Love E

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Raymond Chandler

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rather