She really was the perfect choice to lead our team on the court for the next three years. She has pr...
VAL ACKERMAN We are very proud to unite the best of professional and college basketball as we look to reclaim our...
VAL ACKERMAN Our senior men's program will be tremendously served by Mike's extraordinary capabilities and statur...
VAL ACKERMAN It's been a long road,
VAL ACKERMAN We realize the gravity of the situation, ... Everybody concerned wants to see the U.S. back on top a...
VAL ACKERMAN She did it all this year with the poise of a veteran and class, ... It's hard to imagine a player wh...
VAL ACKERMAN There's every reason to be hopeful because it's a product that's good, and we have a distinctive aud...
VAL ACKERMAN This is our most competitive season ever. I'm sure it will end with a bang. With all the strong perf...
VAL ACKERMAN I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... a...
VAL GUEST I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will atte...
VAL MCDERMID One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things whi...
VAL MCDERMID Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in th...
VAL MCDERMID I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broke...
VAL MCDERMID I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house wer...
VAL MCDERMID The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
VAL MCDERMID There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
VAL MCDERMID I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally mi...
VAL MCDERMID I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.'...
VAL MCDERMID I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that r...
VAL MCDERMID A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people ...
VAL MCDERMID I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time...
VAL MCDERMID We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at h...
VAL MCDERMID The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I'v...
VAL MCDERMID I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I...
VAL MCDERMID It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginab...
VAL MCDERMID Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about ...
VAL MCDERMID The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense co...
VAL MCDERMID I'd like to be more spontaneous.
VAL MCDERMID I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.
VAL MCDERMID Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mista...
VAL MCDERMID On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogy...
VAL MCDERMID I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
VAL MCDERMID We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much unders...
VAL MCDERMID Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of T...
VAL KILMER I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
VAL KILMER I am not an American; I am the American.
VAL KILMER Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My br...
VAL KILMER There are a thousand ways to play any role.
VAL KILMER One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making c...
VAL KILMER You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
VAL KILMER We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth...
VAL KILMER Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the w...
VAL KILMER Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, whi...
VAL KILMER News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television...
VAL KILMER My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
VAL KILMER I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and...
VAL KILMER If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
VAL KILMER Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but ...
VAL KILMER If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you...
VAL KILMER My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was...
VAL KILMER It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photograp...
VAL KILMER I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophis...
VAL KILMER Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
VAL KILMER Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being...
VAL KILMER Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of peopl...
VAL KILMER There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat th...
VAL KILMER Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
VAL KILMER The candor of a civilized mind comes from the ability to question self before action; the reverse is...
VAL UCHENDU Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to defi...
VAL KILMER If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it'...
VAL MCDERMID Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend...
VAL KILMER The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
VAL KILMER I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' ...
VAL KILMER I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester...
VAL MCDERMID I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made ...
VAL GUEST It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie c...
VAL KILMER I was stoned. It seemed like a fun thing to do at the time.
VAL KILMER The only time it's ever like work is when you don't like what you've done.
VAL KILMER And I'd be Dino.
VAL KILMER I'm sick of most of what Robert does,
VAL KILMER Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that...
VAL GUEST Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
VAL KILMER I remember literally aching from laughing, with him telling the darkest story you could ever imagine...
VAL KILMER If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're ...
VAL KILMER I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets t...
VAL MCDERMID You can't prove a negative. I can't prove there are no such thing as vampires any more than you can ...
VAL MCDERMID Father, everybody has mugs these days. It's not a sign of debauchery and disrepute to drink tea from...
VAL MCDERMID Admittedly, they [(places in novels)] didn't all have such ridiculous names as the ones in the Piddl...
VAL MCDERMID It was a source of constant disappointment to Catherine Morland that her life did not more closely r...
VAL MCDERMID Honestly, Mum, how can you say someone's a great writer if you've got a stack of reference books nex...
VAL MCDERMID When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or ...
PHILIPPE VAL Creativity can turn into an avalanche or a tempest, but can also flow like a meandering tributary to...
VAL UCHENDU Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
VAL KILMER Chris has some nasty stuff and is hard to hit his fastball at 90 mph. He throws some breaking pitche...
VAL MCLEAN Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without success. Partly because the town is just...
VAL KILMER He's just getting started, ... Now he can remember what happened yesterday. I do want to say somethi...
VAL KILMER I haven't taken you to any meetings, have I?
VAL KILMER I was surprised at how quickly I adapted to my role.
VAL KILMER (Pratt) basically did the same thing in (the first game) as she did tonight. We put three different ...
VAL ANAE She rebounds, she steals the ball, sets up the assists. She's our bread and butter and has really pl...
VAL ANAE They're scrappy, they stay in it. They hang in there and hang in there and I give them credit. They ...
VAL ANAE They're not going to sit down. They'll be ready to take us. Our new rotation will take some time to ...
VAL ANAE If we come out half as hard as we do in practice, we're a different team.
VAL ANAE She's a great player, and that was a great shot.
VAL ANAE True friendship strives for neither power nor weakness; it holds a mirror to our strength and imperf...
VAL UCHENDU Cherish simple things such as family, friends and love, because great things appear simple from far ...
VAL UCHENDU Loss is like a wind, it either carries you to a new destination or it traps you in an ocean of stagn...
VAL UCHENDU Words come alive from a page or script because both the writer and actor were brave enough to neithe...
VAL UCHENDU It is only with the heart that one can see, hear and feel clearly. Think of an image, music or movie...
VAL UCHENDU If you seek success, serve others. If you
seek immortality give. Serve or give your
time...
VAL UCHENDU If you seek success, serve others. If you
seek immortality give. Serve or give your
time...
VAL UCHENDU There's no difficulty that love cannot conquer...
no door love cannot open...

No wa...
VAL UCHENDU Life is a gift and every day is an opportunity to share your gift with others. Don’t be grateful, ...
VAL UCHENDU This is good news to us all. We are defending the principle of the right for caricature and satire.
PHILIPPE VAL If you seek immortality, then give. For giving frees humanity from the bondage of time. When all is ...
VAL UCHENDU A closed fist cannot give. How can one give when the fist is closed? Yet, most people approach relat...
VAL UCHENDU I remember literally aching from laughing, with him telling the darkest story you could ever imagine...
VAL KILMER Batman Forever.
VAL KILMER It takes just one idea or act to connect the dots between hard work and success... Don’t relent un...
VAL UCHENDU The terrain is mountainous and difficult to access.
VAL CHARLTON Anyone can conquer anything, but the conquest of self frees the ego, and rewards one with limitless ...
VAL UCHENDU As I watched the sun began its daily routine, casting golden hue and illuminating cities, I wondered...
VAL UCHENDU Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it wa...
VAL GUEST Without passion, the earth will be full of hollow bodies devoid of love, relationship, religion, art...
VAL UCHENDU If you don't know the effect of
words, you are behind times.If
you want positivity, spea...
VAL UCHENDU Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
VAL KILMER When one's craft is rooted in strong relationship, he or she lures the into becoming a part of the s...
VAL UCHENDU Put in the time, learn something new, challenge your perception and know that a setback is an opport...
VAL UCHENDU Persona; dangles between a nostalgic subfusc and a spellbinding lucidity
VAL UCHENDU Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open jou...
VAL UCHENDU Faced with delicate issue, consider kindness and deference. It's neither familiarity, indifference n...
VAL UCHENDU Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don&#...
VAL KILMER There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I...
VAL KILMER I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange na...
VAL KILMER Success is the ability to turn a pickle, a bump or an epic failure into an opportunity for success
VAL UCHENDU An artist must take comfort that there's no satisfaction whatsoever with one's creation, just a diss...
VAL UCHENDU To embody a slice of life on stage/film/script/book is awe-inspiring; like peeking into a window to ...
VAL UCHENDU Celebrate differences, give love, and more love. Anything short is a rigidity that cuts both ways an...
VAL UCHENDU Wisdom is the thin conduit between two opposing viewpoints
VAL UCHENDU Great moments are ephemeral, like a lovely text message or viral twitter moment, but when lived, it'...
VAL UCHENDU Not like others? You may be inspired differently. Be bold, step out, follow YOUR intuition, no matte...
VAL UCHENDU There're many ways to inspire others but the goal is the same. The pathways are different and must b...
VAL UCHENDU The mindset of loss of a loved one is to understand that the loss will never be undone. You must liv...
VAL UCHENDU Laugh to be refreshed, discover to be surprised, accept and celebrate differences to be happy
VAL UCHENDU Love is purely spiritual, until you can honestly accept and love your essence and truth, you have no...
VAL UCHENDU Opportunity must be captured; it only yields to those brave hearts that dare to try
VAL UCHENDU When an image depends on the next for a complete meaning, it moves the story and audience along with...
VAL UCHENDU An artist who works from impulse creates pathways for his body and emotion; the lines will naturally...
VAL UCHENDU Peace of mind comes from keeping people's opinion far away from self perception; one is steady and t...
VAL UCHENDU Nothing can resist a person who is
nonresistant... When you overcome
negative with posit...
VAL UCHENDU The earth is always changing...readjusting to our existence. Each era is full of unique challenges
VAL UCHENDU All art forms possess liberty beyond space and time, yet grounded by urgency of now, and a breath of...
VAL UCHENDU A society gets the criminals it deserves.
VAL MCDERMID He's a change of pace pitcher out of the bullpen.
VAL MCLEAN Brent is a good heads-up player in the outfield. David got a lot of work in a reserve role last year...
VAL MCLEAN We have 10 students and seniors signed up for the program. Most of the students taking part are girl...
VAL SULLIVAN You've got to allow kids to be kids. Our discipline will get better; I just wish we didn't have to p...
VAL TRUJILLO The Glasgow accent was so strong you could have built a bridge with it and known it would outlast th...
VAL MCDERMID There were 10,000 18-year-old girls at the MTV awards and I wanted to look cool.
VAL KILMER I'm just shy, ... I wanted to meet Robert because I liked his acting. But he was looking at me funny...
VAL KILMER Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
DIANE ACKERMAN Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains u...
DIANE ACKERMAN Investors are back to looking at the economy, corporate earnings, and unfortunately the continued sa...
ALAN ACKERMAN Inflation appears to be muted,
ALAN ACKERMAN We're beginning to come out of a recession. It's now a matter of just how meaningfully the economy c...
ALAN ACKERMAN Investors are being cautiously optimistic. There's a desire to put money back into the market based ...
ALAN ACKERMAN the expectation is there will be a fairly strong stream of earnings disappointments in the second qu...
ALAN ACKERMAN We're still early in the game. I think what we saw was a rally that we've seen before over the last ...
ALAN ACKERMAN [They have] bright management, they are cost conscious, they're lowering the costs all the time. The...
ALAN ACKERMAN It gave sellers a chance to lighten up a bit, ... On balance, this just appears to be investors taki...
ALAN ACKERMAN This has been an amazing market -- a 'Benny Goodman' market with plenty of swing, ... My sense is mo...
ALAN ACKERMAN This has been a Benny Goodman-type market, ... lots of swing, and it's very, very difficult to get a...
ALAN ACKERMAN Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
GARY ACKERMAN Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but th...
GARY ACKERMAN The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
GARY ACKERMAN For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but ...
GARY ACKERMAN Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the r...
GARY ACKERMAN As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things fo...
GARY ACKERMAN I am always fascinated by India.
GARY ACKERMAN India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.
GARY ACKERMAN We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
GARY ACKERMAN Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in...
GARY ACKERMAN No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.
GARY ACKERMAN I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, cl...
GARY ACKERMAN If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at...
GARY ACKERMAN Every gun sold should require a background check, period.
GARY ACKERMAN We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
GARY ACKERMAN From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so...
GARY ACKERMAN Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face lik...
GARY ACKERMAN You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and ...
GARY ACKERMAN I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so ma...
DIANE ACKERMAN Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior...
GARY ACKERMAN Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we d...
DIANE ACKERMAN Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergro...
DIANE ACKERMAN My war buddies, some were Americans, but some were Afghans. These were the guys that I fought alongs...
ELLIOT ACKERMAN Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or to...
DIANE ACKERMAN There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of...
DIANE ACKERMAN Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet con...
DIANE ACKERMAN It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in bet...
DIANE ACKERMAN After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
DIANE ACKERMAN A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together...
DIANE ACKERMAN I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to ha...
DIANE ACKERMAN Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
DIANE ACKERMAN I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to h...
DIANE ACKERMAN Caregiver: that word should weigh more than others on a page, sag it down a bit and wrinkle it, beca...
DIANE ACKERMAN Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejo...
DIANE ACKERMAN It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting it...
DIANE ACKERMAN The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanit...
DIANE ACKERMAN Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.
DIANE ACKERMAN We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different pl...
DIANE ACKERMAN