I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Stephen Vizinczey

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Bertrand Russell

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

Blair Underwood

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Ellen Glasgow

When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife.

Kris Allen

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

Donald Curtis

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

Curtis Stone

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

Jerry Orbach

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Martin Luther

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.

William Shakespeare

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.

Charles Lamb

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

Don Shula