One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Nate Silver

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

Laura Dern

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Galileo Galilei

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

Emily Mortimer

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

Emeril Lagasse

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

Cassandra Clare

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

John Conyers

This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feelings. And because I can't understand them, I blame her for provoking in me feelings that make my world seem suddenly unsafe.

Paulo Coelho