The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

Gertrude Stein

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

Jack Kerouac

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

Russell Simmons

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

Dayo Okeniyi

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

George Eliot

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Al Boliska

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

Danica McKellar

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Mary Wilson Little

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

John Dryden

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Honore de Balzac

Renee was beautiful, but she was my friend now. On the other hand, Annette was my friend, but now she was beautiful. makes about as much sense as anything ever does with girls

Jordan Sonnenblick