Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.

Judith Malina

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

Chris Lowe

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

Mark Twain

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

Emma Thompson

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.

Anne Frank

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Roger Dawson

I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.

Tippi Hedren

I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.

Guy Pearce

Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don

Margaret Weis, Time of the Twins

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

George Henry Lewes