a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

Benjamin Haydon

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

Gary Wright

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

Woody Allen

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

James Sinegal

Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions

Virginia Woolf

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

William Shakespeare

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

E. W. Howe

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

John Fowles

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Holbrook Jackson

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

John Barrymore

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Stephen King

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

Peter Shilton