I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me, and I didn't hear a thing.

If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features 'Today's specials' on a chalkboard more than 10 feet away, I have to ask for a printed menu. I smile at people I don't know on the street and ignore those I do. When at home, I often find myself grabbing my 'back-up' glasses to search for the better-loved pair I have left on top of my dresser.

Sloane Crosley

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.

Fred Thompson

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

Robin Wright Penn

A proverb in the time of Saint Bernard

Mark Twain

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Jim Valvano

I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.

Minnie Driver

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Michel de Montaigne

The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.

Allan Bloom

Why love if losing hurts so much We love to know that we are not alone.

Clive Staples Lewis

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

George Orwell

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Saint Augustine of Hippo