We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

Charlize Theron

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

Charles Kuralt

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

Ted Allen

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Namie Amuro

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

Milton Friedman

I can't believe he took you to an actual resteraunt. I assumed his idea od a date would be making you watch him play World of Warcraft with his nerd friends.

Cassandra Clare

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Sandra Day O'Connor

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Angela Davis

Everybody in life is a chameleon.

Melanie Chisholm

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

Lewis Thompson

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

Terry Pratchett