The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?

Neil Gaiman

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

John Dryden

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

Sandra Bullock

The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

Johann von Goethe

A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.

Susannah York

Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

Jarvis Cocker

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

Candace Bushnell

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.

Robert B. Laughlin

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

It's so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you're disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private viewing area. I love it.

Michael Zaslow

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

Jimmy Breslin, "Times (London)",

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

Elias Canetti