I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

Martha Plimpton

HOBBES:Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

Bill Watterson

Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

Ovid

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

Oliver North

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

Thomas Kempis

The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

Ambrose Bierce

A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.

Arthur Miller

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

Simone Weil

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

Dan Quayle

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity

C.S. Lewis

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.

Saul Williams

I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.

Wolfgang Puck