The truth is that the public has done one of those startling and amazing things that they do about once in a hundred years. They've seized an idea. What is it? That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier.

Joel Coen

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

Mary Wortley Montagu

In business, words are words explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Harold S. Geneen

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.

Charles Foster Bass

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Wernher Von Braun

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Bill Cosby

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

Shannen Doherty

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

Madeleine Albright

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Robert Louis Stevenson

One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.

Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essa

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

Andrew Motion