A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.

Mike Myers

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Aeschylus

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

John Green

Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.

David Harold Fink

My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

Dan Stevens

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

John Milius

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Annie Dillard

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday I got a .22. He got a hunting knife I got a hunting knife.

Stephanie Cutter

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

John Polkinghorne

I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

Sade Adu

Money confounds subordination

Samuel Johnson

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Dwight D Eisenhower