As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

Moments are the elements of profit

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time socially necessary for its production.

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

Credit of time in your life is limited

Learn to keep close to [Jesus], to listen to His voice, and follow Him.

The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.

It's an amazing confidence boost when you have that swagger of knowing when you pull on the racetrack, all eyes are on you because they know you're the best.

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you're in the audience

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.