The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Miguel de Cervantes

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

Oscar Wilde

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Ann Landers

It takes two men to make a brother.

Israel Zangwill

Man lives by imagination.

Havelock Ellis

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Walter Cronkite

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

Debra Winger

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

David Mitchell

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

Gaylord Nelson

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Black Elk