Marcus felt that their beauty was not to be trusted. It was a dangerous beauty

If we let it change us then they will have won

This is not an ending of my choosing. From now on I will choose my own endings

Womanhood... not at all a pretty sight

He had never heard a name for such a person. Did such a hybrid thing even exist?

Promise me that you will not become a politician... promise me you will become a real revolutionary instead.

Choosing instead to step on a landmine and be blown to pieces

We are your family now

If people saw him building a giant pair of silver wings, then they too would believe that they could fly

You cannot break me. You see, I know for certain that my parents were capable of flight

Valentine loved the idea that flight was possible for someone like him. Valentine believed.

This was how they learned their most valuable lesson about death - that after it there is life again, that things that perish will rise again, that after every ending there is another beginning

It is our reality, the way we live now, our truth. So of course we cannot acknowledge it, let alone print it

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.

Nothing can make a woman look beautiful like the glow on her wedding day.

Modernity signifies the transitory the fugitive the contingent the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.

If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made, and you know what pre-production is, then mostly it's making sure the actors get what they need, and you are providing creative oversight while allowing room for everyone else to own the material, too.

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.

Mel's Diner in L.A. - they are my favorite hamburgers. I could eat there every day. They are ridiculous.

Back at high school, there was this quarterback who asks me out. He's never paid attention to me before, but now we're on this date, going to see the 'Sixth Sense.' And right before the climax, he leans in - and I'm so excited, because I think we're going to French-kiss - and then he tells me the twist. He completely ruins the movie for me.

In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.

I can accept failure everyone fails at something. But I cant accept not trying.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister's wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life. It seemed claustrophobic.

You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So, something like: what sort of weaponry would aliens be able to wield?

I think if you're not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring.