No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

Leo Tolstoy

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

Walter Martin

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Clifton Paul Fadiman

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Jane Wyman

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

Angie Dickinson

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

Oscar Wilde

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

Matthew Fox

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

Jane Harman

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

Gary Cole

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

William Faulkner

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

Amanda Hocking