William Shakespeare Quotes

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

Many defense experts have predicted that we face no greater threat from a single country than from Iran.

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

My job is to help more people have jobs.

The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or your late 30s, but in your 50s, 60s and 70s. There's an awful myth out there that when you get married, love and lovemaking fade. It's not true.

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language. But, yes, it is a challenge. And democracy and democratic debate has to be open to take that debate openly and not push questions aside.

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to see casting directors more willing to put in a character who happens to be deaf. I'm not talking about doing deaf storylines, but putting in deaf characters. I'd love to be able to do Broadway.

I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.