"The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity."

“Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.”

“One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones."”

“I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans.”

“The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.”

Source : Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.169, Transaction Publishers

“[I am] loyal, ambitious and clever.”

“I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.”

“The bigger our vision for the world, the less personal worries we have.”