"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." Albert Schweitzer
"In those days, there was one secret to making good comedy. If it made the audience laugh, it was a good comedy." Hal Roach
"If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works." John Dos Passos
"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly." Sir Cecil Beaton
"And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?"
"I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants." Giulio Andreotti
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." Andy Rooney
"I don't think you'll have to worry that this mental midget, this hillbilly Hitler from Alabama, is anywhere near becoming the nominee of the Democratic Party." Julian Bond
"Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial."
"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." Maureen Dowd
"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment ... but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction." Steven Soderbergh
"I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager." Emily Watson
"I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear." James Todd Smith
"Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing."