Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.

Marriage is a duet or duel.

Wrinkles are ditches that the gods have dug for our tears.

Homesickness for the gutter.

Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good.

Country is the pace where your friends are.

Careful, Sandi. You're about to let your bulldog mouth overload your bird-dog bite.

I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.

The design of 'Love Actually, ' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.

Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

I feel like Bush presidencies are like "Godfather" films. You should stop at two.

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

Just going through a lot in my life, becoming more confident in myself, writing my own music and just really getting in the studio and just doing it.

Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M,Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to rafish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers, With four-and-twenty men And five-and-thirty pipers.