There’s as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said – he’d rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much. – John Wooden
I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I’m whispering it, because I’m a quarter Jewish and afraid it’s all going to be taken away. – Helen Hunt
I’ll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, ‘Would you like to play Meryl Streep’s?’ I said, ‘Yeeees! I’ll do it, whatever it is.’ He said, ‘It’s Mamma Mia!.’ I said, ‘Oh no, which character? The fat friend? – Julie Walters
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view. – James Whistler
Look, I’ve always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public. – Iain Duncan Smith
It’s hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years. – Janine di Giovanni
The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don’t want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled. – Jim Clyburn
I’ve always said if what I’m going to create doesn’t look good on everybody, I’m not going to do it. – Iman
It’s different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It’s a cliche, but it’s said that people who read my books don’t read any other books, and you do get that element. – Irvine Welsh
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it’s not, it’s a visa, and it runs out fast. – Julie Burchill
Some people have said that I haven’t got the parts I should’ve got because of the way I look. – Jacqueline Bisset
Oprah Winfrey gives you the stage? Shut your mouth. I said, ‘I’m sorry for taking over your show.’ She said, ‘No, that’s why we have you here.’ – Iyanla Vanzant
I’ve never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I’ve always wanted to stay true to myself, and I’ve managed to do that. People have to accept that. – Jay-Z
Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood. – Igor Luksic
There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. – some of whom have dubbed this ‘the Hillary effect.’ – Jessica Valenti
When I’ve been asked what should be on my gravestone, I’ve said: ‘Here lies Gandalf. He came out.’ Two big achievements. – Ian Mckellen
My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn’t want them to be checking his writings. – Joe Eszterhas
The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it. – Jack Keane
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people ‘expect’ things to be discovered. – Ian Hacking
When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children’s programming. – Jim Henson
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that. – Jim Harrison
I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders. – John Lewis
Mauna Kea from Hilo has a shapely aspect, for its top is broken into peaks, said to be the craters of extinct volcanoes, but my eyes seek the dome-like curve of Mauna Loa with far deeper interest, for it is as yet an unfinished mountain. – Isabella Bird
I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don’t think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987. – Jim Cramer
Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven’t said to that someone. – Iyanla Vanzant
It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good. – Jules Verne
The so-called incorrigibles were not the way people said they were. I found a lot of character in some of these people. – Jim Brown
Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie. – Jet Li