More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

Homer

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

Marisa Tomei

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or at other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter.

Jane Austen

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

Walter Lippmann

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

Miguel de Icaza

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Paul Cezanne

Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last.

Edgar Allan Poe

I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.

Tom Hooper

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

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Sholom Aleichem

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

Hector Hugh Munro