The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Colette

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

David Hyde Pierce

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

Sidney Poitier

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

Orison Swett Marden

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.

James Gunn

O Lord, I am further away from me than from You!

Sorin Cerin

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

Ted Nugent

I don't design down to a price.

James Dyson

The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

Washington Irving, The SketchBoo

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

Bill Hybels