They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

Gil Gerard

He that's secure is not safe.

Benjamin Franklin

It is not true that is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over again.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere

What would life be if we didn't shake and wake ourselves up once and a while

Heather Richards

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ()A good novel editor is invisible.

Terri Windling

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

Ann Curry

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde

One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.

Caroline Wozniacki

I like Wagner's music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without hearing what one says. That is a great advantage.

Oscar Wilde

You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

Vaclav Havel

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Jane Austen