Most of our spending is done to forward our efforts to look like others.

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

Shia LaBeouf

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

John Marquand

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

Source Unknown

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Madame de Stael

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Elaine Dundy

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

Harvey Weinstein

The Moral: As soon as it has come to the point that the crowd is to judge what is truth, it will not be long before decisions are made with fists.

Søren Kierkegaard

Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.

Lois Horowitz

America is a willingness of the heart.

Source Unknown

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

That's the way it was then, you see. Folks noticed other people's trouble every bit as quick as if it was their own.

Orson Scott Card