"We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves."

“People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.”

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

“People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.”

“I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.”

Source : "Amy Smart Talks 12 Dates of Christmas". "Hollywood The Write Way" Interview, hollywoodthewriteway.com. December 08, 2011.

“Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.”

“It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely”

Source : Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

“Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound... that's all good.”

“What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.”

“Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the mind ... there is an immensity of facts which justify us in believing that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity.”