For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

Carrie Vaughn

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moli

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Josh Billings

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

Orson Scott Card

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Karl Marx

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

Benjamin Carson

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Joseph Addison

In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.

C.S. Lewis

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

Jasper Johns