All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

His huff arrived and he departed in it.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didnt spend half our time wishing.

Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

The story-making process enables us to simplify complex information into the core essence of understanding.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

I contribute to public candidate campaigns, and there's a federal limit on how much you can contribute to each individual candidate. I obey the law in that regard, and I feel like I'm doing it properly.

Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.

Entitlement How can you be entitled to someone elses money

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.

I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.

I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end up in a completely different place, so you've seen this growth and some humanity in the role.

The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.

A friend is someone who understands our past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.

To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Throughout my life, I happily deferred to family, companions, children.

There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.

I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.