When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.

The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.

I'm going to build a reactor, that's for sure.

I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations.

Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.

This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.

The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.

My father found cocktail parties challenging.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

My skin is pretty low-maintenance, but I'm a big sunscreen wearer, which I think is the big thing when it comes to wrinkles, right?

I don't throw money away. First class tickets are very expensive. Why should I fly first class if I can fly business, which is the same thing? I would only fly first class if the ticket included access to some sort of special compartment that could save me if there was any crash.

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

I think a lot of times people who jump from one movie to another don't enjoy their private life. It's a great way to escape reality. But I enjoy my life.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.

I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.

When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.

My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it.

Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.

When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.

You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.