Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Robert Frost

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Ambrose Bierce

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the c

Samuel Johnson

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

Jane Austen

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

Mike Leigh

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

Jane Campion

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Tom Van Vleck

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Leigh Hunt

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Vernor Vinge

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

Edward Bond

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Frank A. Clark