The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

Ben Affleck

I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is.

Greta Gerwig

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Lord Byron

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.

Bible

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Ben Harper

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Barbara de Angelis

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

Laurence Tribe

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

Jean Anouilh

I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.

Cher

Do the next thing.

John Wanamaker

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Gene Brown

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Richard Buckminster Fuller