The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.

Shailene Woodley

I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.

Andy Cohen

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Jeanette Winterson

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars.

Gilbert Parker

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

George McGovern

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Jules Renard

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

Terry Pratchett

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

C.S. Lewis

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

Lee Iacocca