The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Dwight D Eisenhower

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.

Peter O'Toole

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.

Mitch Hedberg

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Jane Austen

There was a beautiful time...

Sylvia Plath

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.

Gael Garcia Bernal

I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.

Reggie Watts

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Thomas Hardy

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Gertrude Stein

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

Christopher Walken