But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.

Barry Levinson

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Gore Vidal

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Steven Wright

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

George Orwell

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Minna Antrim

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

Thomas Hobbes

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

Malcolm X

I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.

Norman Vincent Peale

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe

Read much, but not many books.

Benjamin Franklin

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

David Ogilvy