You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Somecan breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some a long exhaleand for many of us it is the patient steady breathing surrounding life.

Milissa R. Bailey

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

Buckminster Fuller

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Marina Warner

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Stephen King

I have enough money in the bank now to buy enough beans and rice for twenty-five years. To the end (sometimes longed for). Why not kidnap Suzy and sneak off to the life of a semi-hermit? A tempting, constantly tempting idea. ......Peace. Simplicity. Order, ceremony and ritual. Voluntary poverty. An end to clutter and this vulgar, stifling, crushing burden of things

Edward Abbey, Confessions of a B

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

Diane Kruger

United we stand, divided we fall.

George Pope Morris

Every sign is subject to the criteria of ideological evaluation. The domain of ideology coincides with the domain of signs. They equate with one another. Wherever a sign is present, ideology is present, too. Everything ideological possesses semiotic value.

V. N. Volosinov

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Steven Gilbert

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

Herb Alpert

When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.

Joshua Harris

Every dogma has its day.

Abraham Rotstein