There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

Spike Lee

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Confucius

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Horace

I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.

Kristen Wiig

But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill. I want to live and I want to love. I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.

Steven Morrissey

The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Joseph Jefferson

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Joshua Foer

I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

Mark Wahlberg

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.

Will Estes

In a relationship each person should support the other they should lift each other up.

Taylor Swift