85th Academy Quotes

#1. I think the hardest thing about writing is writing.
[Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, Feb. 24, 2013]

Nora Ephron

#2. I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

Elon Musk

#3. The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

Ben Bernanke

#5. Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.

Cassandra Clare

#6. The fire crackled up the stairs. It fed upon Picassos and Matisses in the upper halls, like delicacies, baking off the oily flesh, tenderly crisping the canvases into black shavings.

Ray Bradbury

#7. Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.

Sean Penn

#8. You will discover that essential wellbeing is not found by calming our minds or by changing our thoughts or attitudes, but actually by shifting out of our chattering minds and into a freedom that is already available.

Loch Kelly

#9. At one point he decided enough was enough.

Steven Wright

#10. People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean, these are characters that are broad and big. I don't need to see sweat patches under Superman's arms. I want to see him fly.

Frank Miller

#11. If one mouse is a spark ... then ten thousand are a conflagration.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#12. At the time there was a strong feeling in the streets that the authorities were to blame for their incapacity to dispose of the invaders without all this inconvenience.

H.G.Wells

#13. I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.

Samuel Rutherford

#14. Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.

Ariel Dorfman