Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

Norman Jewison

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Aristotle

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Samuel Alexander

Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to raise pigeons without a thought of eating them, plant rose bushes without expecting to pick roses, write without aiming at publication. We need to do things without expecting benefits in return. The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but it's in the curving paths that the best things are found. . . . We must love the useless, because there is beauty in uselessness.

Lygia Fagundes Telles

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself

Charles Dickens

I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.

Sharon Osbourne

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.

Lea Thompson

It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

Edward George BulwerLytton

In real life I've learned to love not wearing any makeup whatsoever, and I'm super low-maintenance when it comes to my hair.

Leighton Meester

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

Claude Chabrol

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.also cited in Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist (1986)

Georgia O'Keeffe, "New York Sun"