The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw

I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

Jack Bowman

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Rupert Murdoch

The drop hollows the stone not by force but by often falling.Latin: Gulta cavat lapidem non vi sed saepe cadendo

Ovid

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Now, I am opposed to the franchise in the District of Columbia; I am opposed, and not because I yield to any one in my support and belief in the principles of self-government; but principles are applicable generally, and then, unless you make exceptions to the application of these principles, you will find that they will carry you to very illogical and absurd results. This was taken out of the application of the principle of self-government in the very Constitution that was intended to put that in force in every other part of the country, and it was done because it was intended to have the representatives of all the people in the country control this one city, and to prevent its being controlled by the parochial spirit that would necessarily govern men who did not look beyond the city to the grandeur of the nation, and this as the representative of that nation.

William Howard Taft

because being with you makes perfect sense

Tim McGraw

I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.

Helen Fielding

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

Wim Wenders

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Michel de Montaigne

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius