We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'

Sandra Bullock

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

Shannon Hale

I pray for no more youthTo perish before its prime;That Revenge and iron-heated WarMay fade with all that has gone beforeInto the night of time.

Aeschylus

It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if they should see it they would admire it.

Victor Hugo

No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.

Stephenie Meyer

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Philip K. Dick

Rulers were made to be broken.

Michael Isenberg

I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.

Rosamund Pike

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

Patty Murray

The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.

Albert Camus

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Thomas De Quincey

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Blaise Pascal