And Quotes

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting in line.

I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police', and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.

I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.

You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.

It takes more than Love and Passion to make a relationship work

It's hard being such a powerful woman in the business. I'm known for not always being warm and fuzzy, because you'll just get bulldozed over.

My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

No amount of trying to inhale one more shred of inspiration is going to make it any easier to put your heart and soul out there.

We need to be willing to witness ourselves in all the shades of our humanness, and to come into the heart space daily and just hold ourselves with love and compassion.

We're being asked to bring our humanness along in holding that love and compassion for ourselves as we make our way through this energetic time of transformation.

You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?

I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping.

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

Natural Theology says not only look up and look out-it also says look down and look in, and you will find the proofs of the reality of God in the depth of your own nature.

What we have is the here and now, and what we have is each other, and let's find a way to deal truthfully with each other.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.

Then, as they stood there, struggling back and forth without avail, Eragon said in a low fierce voice, "I...see...you." A bright spark appeared in Arya's eyes, then vanished just as quickly.

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

We kinda hated sitcoms when we sat down and talked about this. We wanted to do something that was in the sitcom vain but totally different.

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.

After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life

This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.

Love and life belongs to great risk.

Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.

In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up havinglittle scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those withsequins all over them.

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

Love is certain, love is kind, love is yours and love is mine. But it isn't something that we find, its something that we do.

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo.

Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.

America's been very, very good to me. I've been very lucky and worked a lot there, and appreciate and love the work that I've done.

I didn't want to call and schedule shows or call and make people listen to my music. Luckily, my friends and family really stayed on me and made me put myself out there.

The fun thing with the newer characters in the movie was that anything goes. The life they brought to it just exceeded my expectations. It was just above and beyond.

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

Find a balance between head and heart.

Ladies and Gentlemen this fellow combines the classic stylings of a 1950's robot with the dynamic flair of a 1970's street pimp....that's right, boys and girls every where, your friend Pimpbot 5000!

So far China has won the most gold medals, ladies and gentlemen. The Chinese athletes can't wait to get home and show the medals off to the kids who made them.

I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God.