When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a toddler. What I wanted to say to you, but didn't, was this:

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

Danny Boyle

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

Elizabeth Edwards

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Kahlil Gibran

A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am now about to mix the two together. According to the above, they will explode in my face. Here goes...Well... I'm still here! I poured the hydrogen peroxide into the hydroquinone, and absolutely nothing happened. It didn't event get warm!

Richard Dawkins

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

Cassandra Clare

was serene. Her Moscow troubles had become a memory to her.

Leo Tolstoy

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

Zora Neale Hurston

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Henry David Thoreau

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

Hilda Solis

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

David Merrick

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Eric Hoffer