A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Bill Cosby

The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.

Margaret Thatcher

Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

Graham Greene

The slogan Stop climate change is a very public advertisement of absolute total ignorance as it is not cognisant of history, archaeology, geology, astronomy, ocean sciences, atmospheric sciences and the life sciences.

Ian Plimer

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

John Schlesinger

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.

Paul von Hindenburg

If you would judge, understand.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

Emeli Sande

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Johann von Goethe

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Margaret Anderson

The difference between management and administration(which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

Robert Heller

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Robert Collier