I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

Roald Dahl

All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.

Al Pacino

I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

Edward Abbey

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

Walt Disney

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

Juan Montalvo

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Antonio Gramsci

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Steve Kangas

In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.

Nigella Lawson

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.

Maya Angelou

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

Steve Wozniak

Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Josh Billings