My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.

Paul Thomas Anderson

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

David Guerrero

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

Bill Watterson

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

Ryan Adams

I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.

Susana Martinez

Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

Albert Camus

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.

Wayne Burgraff

There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

Wilson Mizner

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

Andrew Cuomo

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudius Claudianus