I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live; they desire our blood not our pain.

Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.'

Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

That godfather of the modern action blockbuster, 'The Godfather,' is entirely character driven, propelled by the transformation of a crime lord's youngest son, who breaks bad when he evolves from white-sheep war hero to blood-soaked inheritor of his father's empire.

It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand that.

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse, and anybody could die at any time.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

Without Leonard Nimoy, there would have been no 'Star Trek' phenomenon. And without 'Star Trek'... well, that's a parallel universe most of us probably wouldn't want to visit.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

TV kind of worked out naturally for me. I was fortunate to do a show like 'Breaking Bad' and then go straight into something like 'Friday Night Lights.' It's not something I focus on, but when they're great projects, I can't pass them up.

When I'm playing well because of my serve and trying to keep points shorter, I don't need to worry about my opponent. All I need to do is focus on myself and have them adjust to me rather than me adjust to them. That's when I play my best tennis.

Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40.

When I grew up, there was one music: rock n' roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don't know why it happened, but it did happen.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

One man with courage is a majority.

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.