Elephants are contagious.

A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.

Hope raises no dust.

Elephants are contagious.

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science fiction so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

As long as they want me modeling, I'll be here. But I hope to maybe have a cooking show one day or host a talk show when I'm older and have a developed brand. That would be really fun.

What I believe in, in terms of getting our economy going again, is that we need to invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

Civilizations may clash, but they surely fall if robbed of light from above. It could come from the 1 percent or the 99%, but a guiding light is needed to keep the United States from becoming the rubble of past great civilizations.

I think of OkCupid as an online bar; a place where singles can go, have fun with each other and in the process hopefully meet new people, some of whom might turn into a romantic relationship.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

With Scarlett Johansson, I always thought she was pretty, but then when I heard her sing, there was just something about her voice that made her really, really attractive to me. And I think she would be fun to hang out with.

Just getting from the airport straight to the gym is gonna be your best bet to knock off that rust and wake yourself up and get that blood flowing. You sit in a car or a plane cramped up, you lose a lot of blood flow and get that swelling in your legs. There are all kinds of dangers in sitting still too long.

I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.

The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

We've had years and years and years of compromises, and that's led to $14 trillion in debt.

They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93.

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

I have been incredibly lucky with my novels but I had absolutely no idea if anyone would be interested in a cookbook. So I started to think about self-publishing.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.

I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.