"There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way."

“I'm too tired to speak in English...”

“I make different choices in regards to the stories I want to be a part of. In my mind, it's a totally different medium. Commercials are little skits, and movies are stories; I became a little more picky in my choices for stories that I wanted to be involved in.”

Source : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.

“So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.”

“Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas”

“I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.”

“Hopefully that will be seen as a response, a leadership responding to an issue and therefore one's authority, while it's not as high if you didn't have the problem, it does mean that people say 'well he used his authority to come up with a solution in double-quick time that met with broader public acceptance.”

Source : "Government Comes Under Further Budget Pressure". www.irishtimes.com. October 23, 2008.

“The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.”

Source : Paulette Jiles (2003). “Enemy Women”

“The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.”