She made a ravishing corpse.

She made a ravishing corpse.

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

All millionaires love a baked apple.

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?

I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.

A translation needs to read convincingly. There's no limit to what can go into it in terms of background research, feeling, or your own interests in form and history. But what should come out is something that reads as convincing English-language text.

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

I studied math, and I was terrible at it.

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not doing that in the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security, as well as the TSA, is a great culprit in being a Gestapo-type organization.

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery crocus on a garbage heap.

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece of tape that you stand on is called a mark. I kept correcting them and telling them that my name was Michael and not Mark. They said, 'No, no honey.' I was a little green.

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show.

I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.

I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.

I was lucky enough to meet the Material Girl twice.

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

Bringing people together is one of my favorite things... I believed that's what a rock 'n' roll Jesus would really do - bring people together through music.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

What I really enjoy and what I do in the studio is play keyboard.