I am the truth-teller. I tried never to be mean, but Simon did tell me at one point. 'Doug, if you tell the truth, you don't have a choice.

I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.

Carl Lewis

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Jeane Platiere

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

Jane Austen

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.

Kahlil Gibran

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

Charlie Simpson

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people.

Joss Whedon

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

Donal Logue

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

Bela Lugosi

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

William E. Hickson