Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.'

Jon Landau

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

Javan

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.

Brad Renfro

Retail is detail.

James Gulliver

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

Naomi Watts

The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.

Tom Seaver

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

Harold Pinter

I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

Thomas Jefferson

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Oliver Wendell Holmes