When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

Logan Pearsall Smith

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

John J. Sweeney

I went into journalism because I like to be a translator from English to English.

Thomas Friedman

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Thomas Paine

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Theodore Roosevelt

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Getting to know someone is like investigating a crime scene where the culprit is constantly allowed to rearrange the evidence.

Adnan Mithani

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say when!

P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

Vladimir Horowitz

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.

Andy Murray

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.

Richard Lovelace