The best way to predict the future is to create

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.

Vincent Van Gogh

He fell asleep murmuring 'Sanity is not statistical,' with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom.

George Orwell

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

Paul Getty

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Cyril Connolly

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

Joel Osteen

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

Albert Camus

You know, I was a kid when I went into 'Coronation Street' and I had an amazing time. I got some fantastic opportunities from Corrie and from 'Soapstar' and I'd never say they did anything other than help me.

Richard Fleeshman

My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.

Kurt Vonnegut

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

Henry David Thoreau

The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.

Edward Jenks

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

And Wisdom be the Daughter of Experience

Leonardo DaVinci