I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I-

John Green

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

Matt Lucas

For many are called, but few are chosen.

Bible, Matthew 22:14

I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

Cameron Diaz

It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Jane Cahill Pfeiffer

There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple nor even a solitary column...However, out fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it. We are inclined to lay the chief stress on likeness and not on difference, and in foreign bodies we admit that there are many degrees of warmth below blood heat, but none of cold above it.

Henry David Thoreau

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Sir John Egan

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Tina Weymouth

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

Jesse McCartney

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

Thomas Jefferson

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

Thomas Carlyle

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Allan Massie