Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.

Maybe in fairytales you're only as old as you feel, but here in L. A. you're every second as old as your pores.

Accepting defeat is not wisdom.

she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.

I think casting a show is an art form in and of itself. We're all so different - the cast is made up partly of real stand-ups, partly of actors, and then partly of just legendary actors.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.