The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

Emmanuelle Beart

I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.

Seth Rogen

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Nancy Astor

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Paul Celan

Patience is also a form of action.

Auguste Rodin

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Robert Hughes

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Paul Little

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Garrison Keillor

The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.

Thomas Robert Malthus

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

Mark Harmon

I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.

Stephen Harper