You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.

Loretta Lynn

The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.

Mao Zedong

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Henry Steele Commager

But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.

Ben Affleck

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power.

James Cash Penney

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.

Pete Seeger

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

Martin Scorsese

Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you.

Madeline Bridges

If you'd have it done, Go: if not, Send

Benjamin Franklin

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

Elizabeth Gaskell

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Vidal Sassoon

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Nikos Kazantzakis