Smut For The Smart Quotes

#1. The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.

A.R. Rahman

#2. I couldn't hear anything or anyone, there was only the sound of our sex and the smell of books.

Juliet Gauvin

#3. Here, I have an opportunity to affect the lives of a lot of young people - and not just on my football team. I'm not kidding myself that that would be true at the professional level.

Joe Paterno

#4. [Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.

George Wendt

#5. Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. Power, for the writer ... .lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

Ralph Ellison

#7. A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.
(from The General's Legacy)

Adrian G. Hilder

#8. What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

August Wilson

#9. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush.

Howard Dean

#10. When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

Larry David

#11. The true test of faith is how we treat those who can do nothing for us in return.

Dillon Burroughs

#12. I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.

Debra Winger

#13. I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work.

Mary Quant

#14. It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

Katherine Anne Porter

#15. They actually bought me for Daredevil 2, but they have to exercise the option.

Joe Pantoliano