My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'

Sally Field

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.

Anon.

One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.

Jon Postel

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

Ernest Renan

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

Antonio Villaraigosa

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

Tony Snow

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the

Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.

Terry Pratchett

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

Stella McCartney

A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty. Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works. Don't win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.

Orson Scott Card

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Virginia Woolf