It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

Lisa Marie Presley

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Paul Gauguin

The poet is like the prince of cloudsWho haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer;Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers,His giant wings prevent him from walking.

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs d

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

Caroline Kennedy

There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.

Jane Campion

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

Winona Ryder

She isn't very clever or very devout,... and she certainly empties the whole salt cellar into the stories she tells me. But I love her because she never lies.

Georges Bernanos

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

George Carlin

The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle

Arthur Quinn, Figures of Speech,

Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

William James Mayo

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad. Measure For Measure

William Shakespeare