From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

Brendan Fraser

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

Grandmaster Flash

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

George Santayana

Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.

Vera Nazarian

Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

Leo Tolstoy

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

A. R. Ammons

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.

Kathryn Bigelow

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.

Max Lucado

'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.

Adam Lambert

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller

Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother's cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.

John Steinbeck