Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started.

He lived to near the things he loved to seem poetical.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress

To any aspiring actor, go and train yourself.

When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?

What I want people to know about Ethiopia is that it is a country of nations and nationalities. Oromos are the majority. But Oromos have been so good to Ethiopia but have been marginalized for years.

The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

Love is purely a creation of the human imagination, it is merely perhaps the most important of all the examples of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

You grow into everything you hate about yourself, over time.

It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.