Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

Liz Smith

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

James Thurber

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed you, not you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

Terry Pratchett

The internet is not for sissies.

Paul Vixie

...because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

Mark Haddon

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Helen Hayes

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

Finley Peter Dunne

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

Bob Iger

When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.

Yusef Lateef

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

Harry Segall