War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Vladimir Nabokov

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

David Bailey

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

Ang Lee

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody

Sarah Bernhardt, The Art of the

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Charles Caleb Colton

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

Donald Trump

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Oscar Wilde

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

John Conyers

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

Tom Hanks

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Eileen Stukane

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

Emma Thompson