The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.

Ron Wyden

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?

Mitch Hedberg

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

John Ratzenberger

People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was so nice and so funny.

Atticus Shaffer

He is incredibly handsome. You never realized before how beautiful evil could be.

Teresa Lo

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Joseph Brodsky

Well, finally, once you become an orphan, you're an orphan till the day you die. I keep having the same dream. I'm seven years old and an orphan again. All alone, with no adults around to take care of me. It's evening, and the light is fading, and night is pressing in. It's always the same. In the dream I always go back to being seven years old. Software like that you can't exchange once it's contaminated.

Haruki Murakami

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

Thomas Gray

In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.

Gene Tunney

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

Jane Addams

Our souls sparkle brightly with creative energy, our beings are as complex as the universe, and at the same time we help make up a higher body of energy.

Stephen Richards