I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Sigmund Freud

The ability to sign a check is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.

David Plowright

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

Donny Osmond

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

Marcel Proust

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

Harold MacMillan

My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.

Ben Barnes

We need to stop this New World Order ideology now. First, by being educated and informed about it.

James Dye

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

Chloe Sevigny

I had a dream that all the victims of The Pill came back...Boy, were they mad!

Steven Wright

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Anton Chekhov

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

Vladimir Kramnik

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

Herman Melville