How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

Samantha Morton

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

Source Unknown

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

Paul Gauguin

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

Teena Marie

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

Constance Baker Motley

This morning could have been perfect. The cruel truth is they have never been. Give us loneliness or give us death.

Sean Gabler

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up.

James Woods

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

Billy Corgan

Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

George Foreman

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche