The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

Giovanni Ribisi

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Karl Popper

I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in .' - Julia

George Orwell

I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone.

Elizabeth Banks

Men were only made into men with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally a man any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Percy Wynham Lewis

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Marshall Lumsden

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

Ernie Harwell

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Doug Coupland

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Matthew Arnold

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

Andrew Cuomo

The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.

John Verdon