Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.

I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food, it's going to be the real deal.

Paula Deen

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

George William Curtis

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Louise Strong

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

Sean Durkin

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Robert Fulghum

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Francois Fenelon

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

David Bowie

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

Richard Pryor

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Louis Pasteur

Her voice is full of money.

F. Scott Fitzgerald