Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Orson Welles

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

Abel Ferrara

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

Kenneth Clarke

Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions.

Carl Sandburg

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?

J.K. Rowling

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Ogden Nash

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful.

Loren, Sophia

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Robert Hughes

Experience by itself proves nothing. Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it.

C.S. Lewis

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Jimmy Carter

In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.

Sir Winston Churchill