If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

Stephenie Meyer

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

Bo Bennett

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Nancy Friday

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Pierre Corneille

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Desiderius Erasmus

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.

R. L. Stine

I've been over what I'm supposed to say and I've got to tell you, it's pretty persuasive stuff, but is it the whole truth It's a slice of truth, a morsel, a fraction. It's a piece of the pie, certainly not the whole enchilada, and now that I've been thinking about it, I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle. Is there such a thing as objective truth I wonder.

Jeff Melvoin

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

Voltaire

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

Paulo Coelho

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

Rod Stewart

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. Hebrews 10:36

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