Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
[Learn] to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life. We call them coincidences, but if we… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Life is so great that we only get a tiny moment to enjoy everything we see. And that moment is right now.… — Neil Pasricha Copy Share Image
Up in the north of Scotland, a lot of the villages are completely Viking names. A lot of Vikings came down and… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
Someone once told me that children are like kites. You struggle just to get them in the air; they crash; you add… — Charmian Carr Copy Share Image
I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too. — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
What I love about my daughter is that she is going to definitely allow me and force me to change my life… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
There is NOTHING you can do with your running time that is better for you than running. Any other activity only pulls… — Gerry Lindgren Copy Share Image
I love the 'Delilah' show. I've been listening to it for years and years. It's incredible. She's always got a song for… — Ronnie Milsap Copy Share Image
The true marker of success is when the creative minds behind a film can sit down and feel that they have succeeded… — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
Go on, now, go. Walk out the door. Just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore. Weren't you the one who… — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting… — Donald T. Phillips Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump dismantles the agreement [the "Iran nuclear deal"] won by President Barack Obama with President Hassan Rouhani and the Iranian… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed… — Andrew Shue Copy Share Image
Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
He took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool… — Jack Ohman Copy Share Image