Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.

Kevin Kline

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

Martina McBride

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Alice Stone Blackwell

Many writers must have realized human fiction is making much more out of the sense that our reality unfailingly lacks.

Jaf Liethers

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

Sidney Madwed

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Hippocrates

The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.

V. S. Pritchett

You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

Janet Fitch

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

Lee Child

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

John Holt

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.

Jose Padilha