God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
Neil Armstrong

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
Jackie Chan

Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
Rand Beers

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Theodor Geisel

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Theodor Geisel

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
Bertolt Brecht

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
Kanye West

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.
Spike Lee

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.
Spike Lee

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.
Spike Lee

Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.
Spike Lee

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.
Spike Lee

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
Spike Lee

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
Shia LaBeouf

One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.
Lawrence Halprin

Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative.
Lawrence Halprin

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.
Lawrence Halprin