William Congreve Quotes
Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
Quotes to Explore
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
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I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
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Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys.
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Imagine how many women could excel in science if not for the pernicious myth that science and math are a man's game. Likewise, fitness isn't defined by the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the world.
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But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
