A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

Your omnipresence is marvellous I breathe and you enter me. I exhale and enter into you.

Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular.'

Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the smallest theater in the world,' but it has a mini stage and a red velvet curtain.

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

There will always be big companies making big movies. But making film and distribution is changing in front of our eyes. I'm not sure what the future holds for this industry.

The world needs a strong America.

Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.

I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

I've introduced eight bills to fight for support for our small businesses and ensure we get funding to rebuild public housing - among other things.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.

He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent actor director producer leading man and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude but true.