I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

Chris Rock

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

Retief Goosen

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

Christopher Plummer

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Diane Wakoski

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Thomas Edison

For, stripped of the temporary associations which gave rise to it, it is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Addr

Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.

Peter Criss

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Denis Waitley

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

Hannah Arendt

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

Jane Austen

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother

Voltaire