We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

What I am seeing right now is a man who is so dominated by his mother that he is willing to throw away his marriage in order to protect her from the trauma of growing up and acting like an adult.

Orson Scott Card

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

Herodotus

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on.

Source Unknown

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

Harry Connick, Jr.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Shirley Chisholm

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Susan Sontag

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

Justin Timberlake

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Frederick W. Faber, Notes on Doc

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

Bernard Williams

For a mother is the only person on earth Who can divide her love among ten children And each child still have all her love.

Anon.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

J.K. Rowling