Sedulia's Quotations

Mitt Romney and L. Ron Hubbard

Romney admitted that his favorite novel is Battleship Earth, written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

  --"The Harvard 100: The Most Influential Alumni" in 02138, a magazine about Harvard

Lillian Gish on being a woman in the movies

When I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived, I'm sure I would have played his mother.

    --Lillian Gish (1893-1993), quoted in Abby Adams, An Uncommon Scold. From the Yale Book of Quotations, ed. Fred Shapiro

Eva Longoria decides not to run for President

I'm here today to announce my candidacy for President. ... Oh, wrong speech! In the last two years, I've had an affair with the gardener and a teenager, I've faked a paternity test, my husband went to prison, and I threw him out of a window. I would probably win in California.

  --Actress Eva Longoria of "Desperate Housewives," who is politically active but decided that now is not the right time to run

Ewan McGregor and his brother

I can't think of two more diverse professions than what my brother and I do. [The brother is a fighter pilot in the British air force]. He flies at 500 miles an hour 200 feet above the ground....Whereas I wear makeup for a living.

   --actor Ewan McGregor (1971-)