When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

Norman Spinrad

I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the f word.

Helena Bonham Carter

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.

David Hilbert

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

Scottie Pippen

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Edward Phelps

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

Gustave Flaubert

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Brian Tracy

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

Albert Brooks

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.

Julia Cameron

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

Russell Brand

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

Sydney Smith

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen