Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

The most useful thing I could do before this meeting is to keel over. On the other hand, artists are keeling over by the thousands every day and nobody seems to pay the least attention.

Kurt Vonnegut

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

Kate Mara

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

Edwin Louis Cole

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Anne Frank

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

Source Unknown

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

Paula Deen

I don't just try to be funny.

Bil Keane

The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.

Henry Miller

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.

Charles de Lint

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

William Shakespeare

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus