If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they only print your thumbs.

There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

She's generous to a fault - if it's her own.

It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they only print your thumbs.

They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.

Just a touch of eyeliner and red lips is glamorous.

In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in.

They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company.

When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

My mom broke the mold. She put my brother and I first, always, and worked her fingers to the bone trying to provide for us. She taught us right from wrong and gave us very strong morals and values and belief in family, things that have stayed with me.

It is as if the first diviner of absinthe had been indeed a magician intent upon a combination of sacred drugs which should cleanse, fortify and perfume the human soul.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.

Roman Polanski is one of my favorite filmmakers, and John Phillips one of my favorite songwriters. I had the honor to meet each of these men and was almost giddy to be blessed with the chance to tell each artist what his work meant has to me.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

I do not like the way oppressed Filipinos are being treated now. They are oppressed and have no one to turn to.

Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

Western media present events in Russia in a thoroughly negative light. Yes, we have problems, and these need to be covered. But the fact remains that there is a propaganda campaign being waged against Russia. And this is disturbing.

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.