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.

I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Gerald R. Ford

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

Eric San

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

James Earl Jones

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Sir Arthur Helps

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

Shirley Manson

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

Simon Pegg

You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.

Source Unknown

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

Sebastian Coe

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

Jean de la Bruyere