If someone can do it, why can't you be that someone to someone.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

Anne Tyler

Doing a great job and not meeting the customer's objectives is as useless as doing a poor job within the customer's objectives.

Thomas Faranda

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

Wendy Liebman

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

Don Hewitt

If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids aren't doing well, it doesn't matter how the other elements of my life are. It's kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful.

Ethan Hawke

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

Barbara Bush

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

Richard M. Nixon

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Francois Rabelais

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

Henry Drummond

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.

Lexa Doig

Real life seems to have no plots.

Ivy Compton Burnett