One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.

Maybe I'll just be a good aunt.

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

Guidance is everything you have to accept that somebody is their own person an individual.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape - affecting it, yes, but only now and then leaving a permanent mark.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

If Damon Wayans is not breaking, it's a miracle. He is so funny that he makes everyone die laughing.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities 'cause he's not down for the struggle. He does not have that in his roots.

I became stereotyped.

Warrior Writer workshops have sprung up across the country, and of the ones I've attended and participated in, most contain at least one or two star writers.

You cannot blame everything on the enemy.

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

The wrong step becomes the right step once you take it.

I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gains 10 pounds and puts on a nose. I applaud her - good for her that she doesn't care. But she's just as good, whether she's pretty or not.

You don’t get the ass you want by sitting on it.

I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men.

We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.