When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Charles A. Lindbergh

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.

Jerome Wiesner

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.

Joseph Rotblat

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

William Ralph Inge

And when we finally stood up and turned to face the world, I could feel something climbing through me. I could feel it on its hands and knees inside me, rising up, rising up - and I smiled.I smiled, thinking, The hunger, because I knew it all too well.The hunger.The desire.Then, slowly, as we walked on, I felt the beauty of it, and I could taste it, like words inside my mouth.

Markus Zusak

You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it.

Rick Perry

that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

Cassandra Clare

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

Henry David Thoreau

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Edward Bond

One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.

Betsy Cohen