I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star.

I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.

China Mieville

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Alexander Herzen

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Heywood Broun

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

William Shakespeare

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

Warren Buffett

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Alex Haley

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

Charles Baudelaire

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Jean Rostand

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Michel de Montaigne

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

Ronald Reagan

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

Laura Hillenbrand

Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate ?

Albert Camus