I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Natalie Clifford Barney

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

William James

He was the product of an English public school and university. He was, moreover, a modern product of those seats of athletic exercise. He had little education and highly developed muscles -- that is to say, he was no scholar, but essentially a gentleman.

H. Seton Merriman

As grand and griefless as a rich man's funeral.

Sidney Thompson Dobell

I love the role of Ripley.

Sigourney Weaver

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

Orson Welles

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Sir Thomas Browne

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Gore Vidal

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

George Washington

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

Tina Turner

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Peggy Noonan