I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

Patricia Heaton

It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance

Thomas Henry Huxley, On Medical

Nothing succeeds like ones own successor.

Clarence H. Hincks

We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.

James Thurber

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

Cher

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

Julian Assange

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Edmund Burke

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

Robert Ballard

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Jacques Maritain

Challenge yourself everyday to do better and be better. Remember, growth starts with a decision to move beyond your present circumstances.

Robert Tew

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

Hunter Parrish

It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.

James Patterson