The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.

Terry Semel

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

Elayne Boosler

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Benjamin Disraeli

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

K. D. Lang

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

Neil Gaiman

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

Haruki Murakami

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach.

Ronald Harwood

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Aeschylus

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

Mahatma Gandhi