A bad penny always turns up.
A barking dog never bites.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
A change is as good as a rest.
A dog is a man's best friend.
A fish always rots from the head down.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A golden key can open any door.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
A good man is hard to find.
A person is known by the company he keeps.
A house is not a home.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
A leopard cannot change its spots.
If your life has not already been touched by an antibiotic resistant disease, it probably will be at some point.
It's more of a headline for newspapers than anything else.
I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.
The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.
Science is the record of dead religions.
If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.
A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.
Lawyers don't run sales forces.
A happy player is a good player, I think.
I look to TJ for inspiration in so many ways. One thing I learned from him is not to feel sorry for yourself.
I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.
I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.
