Random Quotes

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

Jodie Foster American Actress

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

Meryl Streep American Actress

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Gertrude Stein American Author

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Louis Aragon French Poet

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock Canadian Economist

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

Elizabeth Moon American Author

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

Elizabeth Moon American Author

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

Tammy Faye Bakker American Celebrity

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Henry Bolingbroke English Royalty

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

Stanley Crouch American Critic

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Sara Paretsky American Author

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

Bette Davis American Actress

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

Elias Canetti Swiss Author

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

Serena Williams American Athlete

Satisfying every vision that fans have is probably impossible.

John Harrison English Inventor

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

Antony Jay British Writer

Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.

Paul Graham Scientist

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.

Billy Higgins American Musician

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

Leslie Fiedler American Critic