Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and scenes. I am not primarily a story teller : things occur to me first as seems with action and dialogue as moments, develop

George Bernard Shaw

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

Mike Shinoda

Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

Daryl Hall

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

Gilda Radner

Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power

Phyllis Rose

I have had my vision.

Virginia Woolf

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Charles A. Lindbergh

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

J.K. Rowling

I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it.

C.S. Lewis

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

Tim Gunn

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

Nina Fedoroff

Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.

Santosh Kalwar