The progress of science, of good science, depends on novel ideas and on intellectual freedom: science has very often been advanced by outsiders (remember that Bohr and Einstein regarded themselves as outsiders).

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

Frederick Wiseman

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Aristotle

I swear I want to be a food model.

Amy Sedaris

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

Robin Tunney

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Claude LeviStrauss

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

Al Yankovic

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

Mick Mars

Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not?

George Bernard Shaw

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

Derek Jacobi

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

Oprah Winfrey

Logic is like the sword

Samuel Butler, Notebooks

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

Laurel Lee