To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

Walter Gilbert

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

Alan King

But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.

Gail Porter

Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instruction contained in it? She was going to a Brook to drink, and in her Way was to pass thro a Hedge, a Twig of which opposed her direct Course; one Head chose to go on the right side of the Twig, the other on the left, so that time was spent in the Contest, and, before the Decision was completed, the poor Snake died with thirst.

Benjamin Franklin

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Oliver Goldsmith

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

George Bernard Shaw

Respond; don't react.Listen; don't talk.Think; don't assume.

Raji Lukkoor

I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.

Pamela Anderson

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.

Peter Erskine

I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.

Don Alan Pennebaker

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

Steve Ballmer