Tone can be as important as text.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

Tone can be as important as text.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

One should never create tension between one's footwear.

It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.

I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.

I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.

Good Friday is a day of sorrow mingled with joy. It is a time to grieve over the sin of man and to meditate and rejoice upon Gods love in giving His only Son for the redemption of sin.

I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.

Wall Street has played a role in everyone's life, and it has been vilified by everyone, but I think that the average trader didn't have a sense of what was coming. The culture is so vacuous, it's possible to come to it straight out of college and never have a real adult life, even if you have the wife and kids.

I can't believe we're being paid to live in New York.

The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.

My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.

I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.

A man who has come to the full realization of his responsibility to men won't stick to one man. It will be foolhardy if he does that.

I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

I think the United States is the greatest country in the world to invest in.

Food in Chicago is the best.

Most advertisers spend millions upon millions of dollars to buy commercial time during the Super Bowl, and millions in creating eye-popping ads, hoping to create catchy, unforgettable commercials. Unfortunately, most Super Bowl commercials end up being unmemorable. Costly mistakes for brands and creative flameouts for advertising firms.

I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird.

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.

I worked for Sarah Palin. I have the political staffer version of P.T.S.D., so whenever I hear that she's breaking her silence, my heart stops.