Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Darren Shan

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

Dave Eggers

You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.

Chris Evans

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Henry Ford

Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered

Virginia Woolf

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Aristotle, (attributed)

Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Germaine Greer

I haven't got a lot of patience.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

Gustave Flaubert

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

Rachel Corrie

The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.

David Searles

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Mahatma Gandhi