It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Michel de Montaigne

It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

Marquise De SeVigne

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

Cab Calloway

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!

J.K. Rowling

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

Georges Bataille

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

Gil Gerard

The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Henry Ward Beecher

Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.

Blaise Cendrars Sauser

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

Syesha Mercado

It is action that creates motivation.

Steve Backley