I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Michel de Montaigne

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Leonardo da Vinci

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge

It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.

Keanu Reeves

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

R. Kelly

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

George Eliot

Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.

Sarah Sutton

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.

Edward Conklin

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

William Styron, interview, Write

Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them... You were someone to me.

Kate Chisman

This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

Martin Luther King Jr.