The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

Matt LeBlanc

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Mark Twain

Each of us is shaped by the truth of our natures.Von to Silver

Adrian Phoenix

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

Daniel Radcliffe

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.

Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

Orson Scott Card

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

Vaclav Havel

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Sophie Tucker

Humanity will not see Peace..Till our World Rids Itself of HATRED and Anger. It's darkness is destorying our Nation

Timothy Pina